{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080829.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080829.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080829.htm","text":"Chapter XI.\u2014Clement Has Heard All This Before.\nWhile Appion was allegorizing in this way, I became plunged in thought, and seemed not to be following what he was saying. So he interrupted his discourse, and said to me, \u201cIf you do not follow what I am saying, why should I speak at all?\u201d And I answered, \u201cDo not suppose that I do not understand what you say. I understand it thoroughly; and that the more that this is not the first time I have heard it. And that you may know that I am not ignorant of these things, I shall epitomize what you have said, and supply in their order, as I have heard them from others, the allegorical interpretations of those stories you have omitted.\u201d And Appion said: \u201cDo so.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter XI","type":"page"}