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The Clementine Homilies

Anonymous Pseudo-Clementine compiler

Chapter 34

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Author: Anonymous Pseudo-Clementine compiler

Chapter XXXIV.—Useless and Philanthropic Miracles.

“Those, then, are useless signs, which you say

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that

Simon

did

.

But

I

say

that

the

making

statues

walk

,

and

rolling

himself

on

burning

coals

,

and

becoming

a

dragon

,

and

being

changed

into

a

goat

,

and

flying

in

the

air

,

and

all

such

things

,

not

being

for

the

healing

of

man

,

are

of

a

nature

to

deceive

many

.

But

the

miracles

of

compassionate

truth

are

philanthropic

,

such

as

you

have

heard

that

the

Lord

did

,

and

that

I

after

Him

accomplish

by

my

prayers

;

at

which

most

of

you

have

been

present

,

some

being

freed

from

all

kinds

of

diseases

,

and

some

from

demons

,

some

having

their

hands

restored

,

and

some

their

feet

,

some

recovering

their

eyesight

,

and

some

their

hearing

,

and

whatever

else

a

man

can

do

,

being

of

a

philanthropic

spirit

.

”

Chapter XXXIV.—Extent of Creation.

“O the great hand of the wise God, which doeth all in all! For a countless multitude of birds have been made by Him, and those various, differing in all respects from one another; I mean in respect of their colours, beaks, talons, looks, senses, voices, and all else. And how many different species of plants, distinguished by boundless variety of colours, qualities, and scents! And how many animals on the land and in the water, of which it were impossible to tell the figures, forms, habitats, colour, food, senses, natures, multitude! Then also the multitude and height of mountains, the varieties of stones, awful caverns, fountains, rivers, marshes, seas, harbours, islands, forests, and all the inhabited world, and places uninhabited!

Chapter XXXIV.—Peter’s Daily Work.

Having said this, he dismissed the multitudes; and according to his custom, having partaken of food with those dearest to him, he went to rest. And thus doing and discoursing day by day, he strongly buttressed the law of God, challenging the reputed gods with the reputed Genesis, and arguing that there is no automatism, but that the world is governed according to providence.

Notes

1
[Comp. Homily IV. 12 and the full discussion in XIV. 3–11. In the Recognitions there is no reference to “genesis” before book viii. 2, etc., which is parallel with the passage just referred to.—R.]