Annotatio CLIV

”There is none that doth good, no not [even] one.” — Psalm 13:3

Chrysostom — or someone else, whose exposition on Psalm 13 is inserted in Chrysostom’s commentaries — narrating this sentence, indicates that the Virgin Mary, at the death of Christ, hesitated in faith.¹ For these are his very words: “There was none who did good, when the disciples, all abandoning him, fled; John withdraws naked; Peter denies; the disciples flee; and the sword of doubt passed through the soul of Mary his mother.” You have the interpretation of this sentence above, Annotation 104, and below, Annotations 138, 139, 140, and 185 of book 6.