{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080570.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080570.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080570.htm","text":"Chapter LXII.\u2014A Case of Conscience.\nWhen Peter made this intimation to my father, he answered: \u201cI know what you wish; do not trouble yourself further: for I understand and know what I am to undertake when I come to the place.\u201d And Peter gave him further instruction, saying: \u201cWhen therefore you come to the place, and see the people turned by your discourse, and laying aside their hatred, and returning to their longing for me, send and tell me, and I shall come immediately; and when I come, I shall without delay set you free from this strange countenance, and restore to you your own, which is known to all your friends.\u201d And having said this, he ordered my brothers to go with him, and at the same time our mother Matthidia, and some of our friends. But my mother refused to go along with him, and said: \u201cIt seems as if I should be an adulteress if I were to associate with the countenance of Simon; but if I be compelled to go along with him, it is at all events impossible that I can lie in the same bed with him; but I do not know if I can consent even to go with him.\u201d And when she stoutly refused, Anubion began to exhort her, saying: \u201cBelieve me and Peter. But does not even his voice persuade you that he is your husband Faustinianus, whom truly I love not less than you do? And, in short, I also myself shall come with you.\u201d And when Anubion had said this, my mother promised that she would go with him.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literatu...","type":"page"}