{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080244.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080244.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080244.htm","text":"Chapter XLIV.\u2014Sight or Hearing?\nThen Peter: \u201cI shall speak so that it may be proved to you before all the rest. Answer me, therefore, which of the two can better persuade an incredulous man, seeing or hearing?\u201d Then Simon said: \u201cSeeing.\u201d Then Peter: \u201cWhy then do you wish to learn from me by words, what is proved to you by the thing itself and by sight?\u201d Then Simon: \u201cI know not what you mean.\u201d Then Peter: \u201cIf you do not know, go now to your house, and entering the inner bed-chamber you will see an image placed, containing the figure of a murdered boy clothed in purple; ask him, and he will inform you either by hearing or seeing. For what need is there to hear from him if the soul is immortal, when you see it standing before you? For if it were not in being, it assuredly could not be seen. But if you know not what image I speak of, let us straightway go to your house, with ten other men, of those who are here present.\u201d 697\n[Comp. book ii. 15 and Homily II. 26.\u2014R.]","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter XLIV","type":"page"}