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Updated: April 30, 2025
And so the jolly days go by, some wet, some fine, some a mixture of both, but all delightful, and we forget the day of the week, know no news except the changes in the weather and the track over the mountains, meet none of our kind except a rare vagabond like ourselves with rope across his shoulder if he is a rock-man, with rucksack on back if he is a tourist and with no goal save some far-off valley inn where we shall renew our strength and where the morrow's uprising to deeds shall be sweet.
They don't know themselves. They haven't found their feet. They haven't adjusted yet to their swiftly changing surroundings. They don't know what next. They don't know what to do. So the old impulsive Simon in Peter proposed something. Simon, the unsteady, was much in evidence those days. Peter the rock-man hadn't arrived yet. This was Simon Peter's specialty, proposing something.
Catholics claim that Christ, in answering Peter, introduced a play upon words, such as a witty person will indulge in: Petros, the apostle's name, signifies a rock-man, a firm person, and from this meaning it is an easy step to petra, which is plain rock or stone. If this interpretation is admitted, the expression "upon thee" may be substituted for the expression "on this rock."
His open, ingenuous nature was not given to lying, his impetuous character was not prone to cowardice. Accustomed from boyhood to meet death in the wrestle with nature for daily sustenance, he was not subject to the apprehensions of a nervous dread. None of his fellow-disciples would have expected the rock-man to show that he was clay or sand after all.
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