{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080727.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080727.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080727.htm","text":"p. 246 Chapter XL.\u2014Peter\u2019s Answer.\nIn like manner Simon, by taking many passages from the Scriptures, seemed to show that God is subject to every infirmity. And to this Peter said: \u201cDoes he who is evil, and wholly wicked, love to accuse himself in the things in which he sins? Answer me this.\u201d Then said Simon: \u201cHe does not.\u201d Then said Peter: \u201cHow, then, can God be evil and wicked, seeing that those evil things which have been commonly written regarding Him, have been added by His own will!\u201d Then said Simon: \u201cIt may be that the charge against Him is written by another power, and not according to His choice.\u201d Then said Peter: \u201cLet us then, in the first place, inquire into this. If, indeed, He has of His own will accused Himself, as you formerly acknowledged, then He is not wicked; but if it is done by another power, it must be inquired and investigated with all energy who hath subjected to all evils Him who alone is good.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literatu...","type":"page"}