Luke 9:33

Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

of the New? Well therefore does Peter, when recognizing the companions of his Christ in their indissoluble connection with Him, suggest an expedient: "It is good for us to be here" (good: that evidently means to be where Moses and Elias are); "and let us make three tabernacles, one for Thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. But he knew not what he said."[849]

Tertullian On Fasting

For the latter voice was uttering a threat to a fed man, the former soothing a fasting one. Such is the prerogative of circumscribed food, that it makes God tent-fellow[48]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII "[239]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

but Luke, "not knowing," he says, "what he spake."[241]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

But if any one will not admit that Peter spoke these things from any evil inspiration, but that his words were of his own mere choice, and it is demanded of him how he will interpret, "not knowing what he said," and,[252]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

But some one, with reference to what we have alleged about the trance and the working of an evil spirit in Peter, concerning the words, "not knowing what he said,"[259]