John Trapp on Matthew 16:22

Verse 22. Then Peter took him] Took him by the hand, & led him apart, as we do those we are most [illegible: 1 word] with, in great courtesy and secrecy, to impart to them things of greatest importance. Peter was strongly possest with a fond conceit of an earthly kingdom; and as Joseph dreamt of his preferment, but not at all of his imprisonment: so neither could Peter think or hear of Christs being killed, whom he had even now confessed to be the Christ, the son of the living God. See here how easily we slide, by the deceitfulnesse of our hearts, from the mean to the extream. Peter having made a notable profession of his faith, and being therefore much commended by Christ, presently takes occasion to fall from the true holinesse of faith, to the [illegible: 1 word] of presumption, in advising his Master to decline the crosse. And began to rebuke him, saying] No, he did not rebuke him, saith Maldonat the Jesuite, but friendly counselled him only, asNon tantum significat reprebend re & increpare, sed etiā [illegible: 1 word] & interdicere. if [non-Latin text not transcribed] were not to chide and charge, as masters do their servants, even with threatnings and menaces. But these patrons of Peter (as they pretend) will not abide that he should be blamed for any thing. Baronius blusheth not to say (and so to put the lie upon the holy Ghost himself) that Paul was out in reprovingGerh. Baron. Annal. Sands his Rel. of West. Relig. Peter, Gal. 2. 14. and that it had been better manners for him to have held his tongue. Others of them have blasphemously censured S. Paul in their Sermons, as a hot-headed person, of whose assertions no great [illegible: 1 word] was to be made by the sober-[illegible: 1 word] and that he was not secure of his preaching, [illegible: 1 word] by conference with S. Peter, neither durst he publish his Epistles, till S. Peter had allowed them.