Luke 22:33

St. Peter's resolution to accompany Christ both to prison and to death, was holy and good; but his too confident opinion of his own strength and ability so to do, without. divine aid and assistance, was his failing and infirmity. Self-confidence is. sin, too, incident to the holiest and best of men. Little did St. Peter think what. feather he should be in the wind of temptation, if once God left him to himself, and to Satan's assaults.

Learn farther, how hard. matter it is for. Christian to excel in gifts, and not to be overconfident and conceited. To see. man eminent in gifts, and yet exemplary in humility, is. rare sight; if we stand in the evil day, it is an humble fear of falling that must enable us to stand.