{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080523.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080523.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080523.htm","text":"Chapter XV.\u2014Clement\u2019s Disclosure.\nThen I Clement went on to speak thus: \u201cAt Tripolis, when you were disputing against the Gentiles, my lord Peter, I greatly wondered at you, that although you were instructed by your father according to the fashion of the Hebrews and in observances of your own law, and were never polluted by the studies of Greek learning, you argued so magnificently and so incomparably; and that you even touched upon some things concerning the histories of the gods, which are usually declaimed in the theatres. But as I perceived that their fables and blasphemies are not so well known to you, I shall discourse upon these in your hearing, repeating them from the very beginning, if it please you.\u201d Then says Peter: \u201cSay on; you do well to assist my preaching.\u201d Then said I: \u201cI shall speak, therefore, because you order me, not by way of teaching you, but of making public what foolish opinions the Gentiles entertain of the gods.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter XV","type":"page"}