The Recognitions of Clement
Anonymous Pseudo-Clementine compiler
Book 2 · Chapter 59
About this work
A pseudonymous Christian romance in which Clement narrates travels, debates, conversions, family separation and reunion, and Peter’s conflicts with Simon Magus within a larger composite tradition.
- Author
- Anonymous Pseudo-Clementine compiler
- Traditional attribution
- Clement of Rome
- Date
- Probably 3rd–4th century
- Origin
- Syria (often proposed)
- Genre
- Apocryphon
The work belongs to the complex Pseudo-Clementine tradition, whose sources, recensions, dates, and relationships remain debated.
Chapter LIX.—The Creator Our Father.
Then Simon: “It is not impious