{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080269.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080269.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080269.htm","text":"Chapter LXIX.\u2014Arrangements Approved by All the Brethren.\nHaving therefore separated me, Clement, and Niceta and Aquila, he said to those twelve: \u201cI wish you the day after to-morrow to proceed to the Gentiles, and to follow in the footsteps of Simon, that you may inform me of all his proceedings. You will also inquire diligently the sentiments of every one, and announce to them that I shall come to them without delay; and, in short, in all places instruct the Gentiles to expect my coming.\u201d When he had spoken these things, and others to the same effect, he said: \u201cYou also, my brethren, if you have anything to say to these things, say on, lest haply it be not right which seems good to me alone.\u201d Then all, with one voice applauding him, said: \u201cWe ask you rather to arrange everything according to your own judgment, and to order what seems good to yourself; for this we think to be the perfect work of piety, if we fulfil what you command.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literatu...","type":"page"}