{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080395.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080395.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080395.htm","text":"Chapter XXVIII.\u2014More Recognitions.\nAnd when Peter said this, 799 Niceta and Aquila suddenly started up, and being astonished, began to be greatly agitated, saying: \u201cO Lord, Thou Ruler and God of all, are these things true, or are we in a dream?\u201d Then Peter said: \u201cUnless we be mad, these things are true.\u201d But they, after a short pause, and wiping their faces, p. 163 said: \u201cWe are Faustinus and Faustus: and even at the first, when you began this narrative, we immediately fell into a suspicion that the matters that you spoke of might perhaps relate to us; yet again considering that many like things happen in men\u2019s lives, we kept silence, although our hearts were struck by some hope. Therefore we waited for the end of your story, that, if it were entirely manifest that it related to us, we might then confess it.\u201d And when they had thus spoken, they went in weeping to our mother. And when they found her asleep, and wished to embrace her, Peter prevented them, saying: \u201cPermit me first to prepare your mother\u2019s mind, lest haply by the great and sudden joy she lose her reason, and her understanding be disturbed, especially as she is now stupefied with sleep.\u201d\n[With chaps. 28\u201336 the narrative in Homily XIII. 3\u201311 corresponds quite closely.\u2014R.]","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter XXVIII","type":"page"}