{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080815.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080815.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080815.htm","text":"Chapter XXVIII.\u2014The Hoax Confessed.\n\u201cWhen I heard this, I said to Appion: \u2018Now I shall confess the truth to you. I was not enamoured of the woman, or of any one else, my soul being exceedingly spent upon other desires, and upon the investigation of true doctrines. And till now, although I have examined many doctrines of philosophers, I have inclined to none of them, excepting only that of the Jews,\u2014a certain merchant of theirs having sojourned here in Rome, selling linen clothes, and a fortunate meeting having set simply before me the doctrine of the unity of God.\u2019","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literatu...","type":"page"}