{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080247.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080247.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080247.htm","text":"\u201cI am the first power, who am always, and without beginning. 699 But having entered the womb of Rachel, I was born of her as a man, that I might be visible to men. I have flown through the air; I have been mixed with fire, and been made one body with it; I have made statues to move; I have animated lifeless things; I have made stones bread; I have flown from mountain to mountain; I have moved from place to place, upheld by angels\u2019 hands, and have lighted on the earth. Not only have I done these things; but even now I am able to do them, that by facts I may prove to all, that I am the Son of God, enduring to eternity, and that I can make those who believe on me endure in like manner for ever. But your words are all vain; nor can you perform any real works such as I have now mentioned, p. 127 as he also who sent you is a magician, who yet could not deliver himself from the suffering of the cross.\u201d\n[Compare with this chapter book ii. 9, 14; Homily II. 32.\u2014R.]","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter XLVII","type":"page"}