{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080685.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080685.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080685.htm","text":"Chapter LII.\u2014Sins of the Saints Denied.\nThen Peter answered: \u201cAssuredly, with good reason, I neither believe anything against God, nor against the just men recorded in the law, taking for granted that they are impious imaginations. For, as I am persuaded, neither was Adam a transgressor, who was fashioned by the hands of God; nor was Noah drunken, who was found righteous above all the world; 954 nor did Abraham live with three wives at once, who, on account of his sobriety, was thought worthy of a numerous posterity; nor did Jacob associate with four\u2014of whom two were sisters\u2014who was the father of the twelve tribes, and who intimated the coming of the presence of our Master; nor was Moses a murderer, nor did he learn to judge from an idolatrous priest\u2014he who set forth the law of God to all the world, and for his right judgment has been testified to as a faithful steward.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter LII","type":"page"}