{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080637.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080637.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080637.htm","text":"\u201cHowever, I have learned, O Clement, how that in Alexandria Barnabas perfectly expounded to you the word respecting prophecy. Was it not so?\u201d I answered, \u201cYes, and exceeding well.\u201d Then Peter: \u201cTherefore it is not necessary now to occupy with the instructions which you know, the time which may serve us for other instructions which you do not know.\u201d Then said I: \u201cYou have rightly said, O Peter. But vouchsafe this to me, who purpose always to attend upon you, continuously to expound to me, a delighted hearer, the doctrine of the Prophet. For, apart from Him, as I learned from Barnabas, it is impossible to learn the truth.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter IV","type":"page"}