Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
Ver. 68. Thou hast the words of eternal life.] In going from thee, therefore, we shall go out of God's blessing. Nay, we shall go upon our own death, upon hell's mouth. The Roman law was, Transfugas, ubicunque inventi fuerint, quasi hostes interficere licet. Renagades are sure to die for it; when those that live by those lively oracles of the gospel shall live for ever.