{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080729.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080729.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080729.htm","text":"Then said Peter: \u201cBecause things are written opposite to those sayings which speak evil of him; wherefore neither the one nor the other can be confirmed.\u201d Then Simon: \u201cHow, then, is the truth to be ascertained, of those Scriptures that say he is evil, or of those that say he is good?\u201d Then Peter: \u201cWhatever sayings of the Scriptures are in harmony with the creation that was made by Him are true, but whatever are contrary to it are false.\u201d 986 Then Simon said: \u201cHow can you show that the Scriptures contradict themselves?\u201d And Peter said: \u201cYou say that Adam was created blind, which was not so; for He would not have pointed out the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to a blind man, and commanded him not to taste of it.\u201d Then said Simon: \u201cHe meant that his mind was blind.\u201d Then Peter: \u201cHow could he be blind in respect of his mind, who, before tasting of the tree, in harmony with Him who made him, imposed appropriate names on all the animals?\u201d Then Simon: \u201cIf Adam had foreknowledge, how did he not foreknow that the serpent would deceive his wife?\u201d Then Peter: \u201cIf Adam had not foreknowledge, how did he give names to the sons of men as they were born with reference to their future doings, calling the first Cain (which is interpreted \u2018envy\u2019), who through envy killed his brother Abel (which is interpreted \u2018grief\u2019), for his parents grieved over him, the first slain?\n[Comp. ii. 38 and many other passages for this view of the errors of Scripture. The test of truth as here stated is noteworthy. It suggests some modern affinities.\u2014R.]","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter XLII","type":"page"}