Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxi Pg 23
Luke ix. 21.
For if Peter was unable to acknowledge Him to be any other than the Creator’s Christ, while He commanded them “to tell no man that saying,” surely4278 4278 Utique.
He was unwilling to have the conclusion promulged which Peter had drawn. No doubt of that,4279 4279 Immo.
you say; but as Peter’s conclusion was a wrong one, therefore He was unwilling to have a lie disseminated. It was, however, a different reason which He assigned for the silence, even because “the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and scribes, and priests, and be slain, and be raised again the third day.”4280 4280
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 9
VERSE (21) - Mt 16:20; 17:9 Mr 8:31