{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080564.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080564.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080564.htm","text":"Chapter LVI.\u2014Simon\u2019s Design in the Transformation.\n\u201cAll we, therefore, who went before you, considered that in the meantime you should not go p. 207 up to Antioch, till we see if the hatred of you which he has sown among the people be in any degree lessened by his departure.\u201d When he who had come from Antioch had imparted this information, Peter, looking to our father, said, \u201cFaustinianus, your countenance has been transformed by Simon Magus, as is evident; for he, thinking that he was being sought for by C\u00e6sar for punishment, has fled in terror, and has placed his own countenance upon you, if haply you might be apprehended instead of him, and put to death, that so he might cause sorrow to your sons.\u201d But my father, when he heard this, crying out, said with tears: \u201cYou have judged rightly, O Peter: for Anubion also, who is very friendly with me, began to inform me in a certain mysterious way of his plots; but unhappily I did not believe him, because I had done him no harm.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter LVI","type":"page"}