{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080378.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080378.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080378.htm","text":"Chapter XI.\u2014Different Effects of Suffering on Heathens and Christians.\nPeter, hearing this, shed tears of sympathy, and said to his friends who were present: \u201cIf any man who is a worshipper of God had endured what this man\u2019s father has endured, immediately men would assign his religion as the cause of his calamities; but when these things happen to miserable Gentiles, they charge their misfortunes upon fate. I call them miserable, because they are both vexed with errors here, and are deprived of future hope; whereas, when the worshippers of God suffer these things, their patient endurance of them contributes to their cleansing from sin.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter XI","type":"page"}