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The Clementine Homilies

Anonymous Pseudo-Clementine compiler

Chapter 59

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Author: Anonymous Pseudo-Clementine compiler

Chapter LIX.—Peter’s Resolution to Follow.

Peter, hearing this, on the following night assembled the multitude

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of

hearers

;

and

as

soon

as

they

were

come

together

,

he

said

:

“

While

I

am

going

forth

to

the

nations

which

say

that

there

are

many

gods

,

to

teach

and

to

preach

that

God

is

one

,

who

made

heaven

and

earth

,

and

all

things

that

are

in

them

,

in

order

that

they

may

love

Him

and

be

saved

,

evil

has

anticipated

me

,

and

by

the

very

law

of

conjunction

has

sent

Simon

before

me

,

in

order

that

these

men

,

if

they

shall

cease

to

say

that

there

are

many

gods

,

disowning

those

upon

earth

that

are

called

gods

,

may

think

that

there

are

many

gods

in

heaven

;

so

that

,

not

feeling

the

excellency

of

the

monarchy

,

they

may

perish

with

eternal

punishment

.

And

what

is

most

dreadful

,

since

true

doctrine

has

incomparable

power

,

he

forestalls

me

with

slanders

,

and

persuades

them

to

this

,

not

even

at

first

to

receive

me

;

lest

he

who

is

the

slanderer

be

convicted

of

being

himself

in

reality

a

devil

,

and

the

true

doctrine

be

received

and

believed

.

Therefore

I

must

quickly

catch

him

up

,

lest

the

false

accusation

,

through

gaining

time

,

wholly

get

hold

of

all

men

.