 | Peter Kreeft - 2002 - 124 pages
...souls, not to destroy them. Destroying souls in hell is the work of Satan, not God. Jesus said to Peter, "Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat" (Luke 22:31). Peter learned the lesson and passed it on to us in his first epistle: "Discipline yourselves,... | |
 | Jean Lafrance - 2002 - 316 pages
...edification, in the strong sense of the word, the word Peter received when he came out of his great trial: I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail. When once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers (Lk 22:32). Too often we think of extraordinary... | |
 | Arthur E. Zannoni - 2002 - 180 pages
...was the context in which Jesus began and ended his passion. At the last supper, Jesus tells Peter, "I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail" (22:32), as he foretells Peter's denial. Before his arrest, Jesus prays in agony to his Father, asking... | |
 | Paulist Press, Richard P. McBrien - 2003 - 180 pages
...to Simon Peter suggest that the disciples understood Jesus as having intended them to stay together: "Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift...you that your own faith may not fail; and you, when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers" (Luke 22:31-32). In fact, there was never a churchless... | |
 | Joseph A. Grassi - 2003 - 292 pages
...Peter will deny him but his conversion and return are "guaranteed" with the words at the Last Supper, "Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift...you that your own faith may not fail; and you, when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers" (22:31-32). This will affect the portrait only of Mary... | |
 | Patrick J. Hartin, Daniel J. Harrington - 2003 - 350 pages
...New Testament traditions that express a "turning back" to the God from whom some have wandered (eg, "but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned back [epistrepsas], strengthen your brothers" [Luke 22:32; see also Mark 4:12]). 20. know that whoever turns... | |
 | John Clare Moore - 2003 - 346 pages
...which is known to pertain especially to my office, the Lord proclaiming, "I have prayed for you Peter that your own faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers" (Luke 22:32). What he prayed for he received, since for his reverence he was heard in all things. And... | |
 | Bruce J. Malina, Richard L. Rohrbaugh - 462 pages
...drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 31 "Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat, 32 but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned back,... | |
 | Christopher P. Vogt - 2004 - 176 pages
...concern. The following text precedes both Peter's pledge of fidelity and the prediction of his denials: "Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift...once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers" (Lk 22:31-32). Jesus predicts not simply Peter's failure, but a subsequent ability to turn back again... | |
 | Phyllis Strupp - 2004 - 272 pages
...inside out, and played an active role in tempting people, as he warned Peter in Luke az:31-3a NRSV: Simon. Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift all...once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. Yet Jesus didn't talk about hurting, killing, or destroying Satan, as if Satan's fate were up to God... | |
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Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift all of you like wheat, 32 but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. 
