Opening the library…

Home Bible Corpus Discover You

Search the Bible

The Clementine Homilies

Anonymous Pseudo-Clementine compiler

Chapter 58

About this work

Author: Anonymous Pseudo-Clementine compiler

Chapter LVIII.—Flight of Simon.

Therefore Simon, perceiving that Peter was driving him to use the

‹ Chapter 57 Chapter 59 ›

Scriptures

as

Jesus

taught

,

was

unwilling

that

the

discussion

should

go

into

the

doctrine

concerning

God

,

even

although

Peter

had

changed

the

discussion

into

question

and

answer

,

as

Simon

himself

asked

.

However

,

the

discussion

occupied

three

days

.

And

while

the

fourth

was

dawning

,

he

set

off

darkling

as

far

as

Tyre

of

Phœnicia

.

And

not

many

days

after

,

some

of

the

precursors

came

and

said

to

Peter

:

“

Simon

is

doing

great

miracles

in

Tyre

,

and

disturbing

many

of

the

people

there

;

and

by

many

slanders

he

has

made

you

to

be

hated

.

”

Notes

1
[The three days’ discussion is detailed in Recognitions, ii. 20–iii. 48; the account here is confined to the first day.—R.]
2
[Comp. Recognitions, iii. 73. The historical incidents of the two narratives vary greatly from this point onward.—R.]