But a certain maidservant beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
By saying that Peter did penance, we have to take care not to think that he did it as those who are properly called penitents now do it in the church. Who could bear it that we should think the first of the apostles was numbered among such penitents? He repented of having denied Christ, as his tears show, for so it is written, “he wept bitterly.” They had not yet been strengthened by the resurrection of the Lord, the coming of the Holy Spirit who appeared on the day of Pentecost, or by that breath which the Lord breathed on them after he rose from the dead.
