{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080064.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080064.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080064.htm","text":"While I was continually revolving in my mind these and such like questions, suggested I know not how, I was pining away wonderfully through excess of grief; and, what was worse, if at any time I thought to cast aside such cares, as being of little use, the waves of anxiety rose all the higher upon me. For I had in me that most excellent companion, who would not suffer me to rest\u2014the desire of immortality: for, as the subsequent issue showed, and the grace of Almighty God directed, this bent of mind led me to the quest of truth, and the acknowledgment of the true light; and hence it came to pass, that ere long I pitied those whom formerly in my ignorance I believed to be happy.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter II","type":"page"}