We must connect this with what went before, “He goeth up into a mountain, and calleth.”
Pseudo-Jerome, Gen. 27:36 see Catena Aurea, Matt. 10:2: Namely, James who has supplanted all the desires of the flesh, and John, who received by grace what others held by labour.
There follows: “And He surnamed them, Boanerges.”
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