{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080217.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080217.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080217.htm","text":"Chapter XVII.\u2014Not Admitted by All.\nThen Simon, interrupting his discourse, said: \u201cThey do rightly who say that there is no evil.\u201d p. 119 Then Peter answered: \u201cWe do not propose to speak of this now, but only to state the fact that the existence of evil is not universally admitted. But the second question that you should have asked is, What is evil?\u2014a substance, an accident, or an act? And many other things of the same sort. And after that, towards what, or how it is, or to whom it is evil,\u2014whether to God, or to angels, or to men, to the righteous or the wicked, to all or to some, to one\u2019s self or to no one? And then you should inquire, Whence it is?\u2014whether from God, or from nothing; whether it has always been, or has had its beginning in time; whether it is useful or useless? and many other things which a proposition of this sort demands.\u201d To this Simon answered: \u201cPardon me; I was in error concerning the first question; but suppose that I now ask first, whether evil is or not?\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter XVII","type":"page"}