{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080683.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080683.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080683.htm","text":"Chapter L.\u2014A Satisfactory Answer.\nThen I, already perceiving the explanation, smiled, and said that he was a prophet. And Peter said: \u201cIf, then, he was a prophet, being a man, he was ignorant of nothing, by reason of his having received foreknowledge from God; how then, should He, who gave to man the gift of foreknowledge, being God, Himself be ignorant?\u201d And I said: \u201cYou have spoken rightly.\u201d Then Peter said: \u201cCome with me one step further. It being acknowledged by us that God foreknows all things, there is every necessity that the scriptures are false which say that He is ignorant, and those are true which say that He knows.\u201d Then said I: \u201cIt must needs be so.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter L","type":"page"}