{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080728.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080728.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080728.htm","text":"Chapter XLI.\u2014\u201cStatus Qu\u00e6stionis.\u201d\nThen said Simon: \u201cYou are manifestly avoiding the hearing of the charge from the Scriptures against your God.\u201d Then Peter: \u201cYou yourself appear to me to be doing this; for he who avoids the order of inquiry, does not wish a true investigation to be made. Hence I, who proceed in an orderly manner, and wish that the writer should first be considered, am manifestly desirous to walk in a straight path.\u201d Then Simon: \u201cFirst confess that if the things written against the Creator are true, he is not above all, since, according to the Scriptures, he is subject to all evil; then afterwards we shall inquire as to the writer.\u201d Then said Peter: \u201cThat I may not seem to speak against your want of order through unwillingness to enter upon the investigation, 985 I answer you. I say that if the things written against God are true, they do not show that God is wicked.\u201d Then said Simon: \u201cHow can you maintain that?\u201d\nThe text of this passage in all the editions is meaningless. It becomes clear by change of punctuation.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter XLI","type":"page"}