Spirit And Flesh

Et venit ad discipulos suos, et invenit eos dormientes; et dicit Petro: Sic non potuistis una hora vigilare mecum?  Petrum singillatim infra caeteros increpat, quia prae caeteris nunquam se scandalizaturum fuerat gloriatus, quod nunc tristitiae magnitudine somnum non potuisset extergere. Vigilate et orate, ut non intretis in tentationem.  Hoc est: Ne tentatio vos ultima superet orate, et intra suos casus teneat. Spiritus quidem promptus est, caro autem infirma.  Duas in se ostendit voluntates, humanam videlicet, quae est carnis, et divinam, quae est deitatis: formidare quippe in passione, humanae est fragilitatis; suscipere autem dispensationem passionis, divinae est voluntatis et virtutis. Aliter, ad eos hic sermo conversus est, qui se spoponderant nunquam negaturus; illorum enim spiritus promptus, sed caro erat infirma, quia nondum induerant virtutem ex alto. Sanctus Beda, In Matthaei Evangelium Expositio, Liber IV, Cap XXVI

And He came to his disciples and found them sleeping, and He said to Peter, 'So you were not able to watch an hour with me? '1 Peter alone among the others is rebuked, because he before them all had boasted that he would not be scandalised, he who now was not able to cast off sleep for the sake of great suffering. Watch and pray, that you do not enter into temptation. That is, pray that temptation not finally overcome you and among you error reign. Certainly the spirit is eager, but the flesh is weak. Two wills are shown in this, the human one, which is of the flesh, and the Divine which is of the Deity, since to fear in suffering is appropriate to human weakness but to take up the state of suffering is the choice of the Divine power. Otherwise, this is spoken to those who announced they would never desert him; for their spirit was eager but their flesh was weak, because it was not yet imbued with virtue from on high. Saint Bede, from the Commentary On The Gospel of Saint Matthew, Book 4, Chap 26 1 Mt 26.40