{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080984.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080984.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080984.htm","text":"Chapter XIII.\u2014A Woman of a Sorrowful Spirit.\nBut Peter alone did not think it worth while to look at the sights that were there; but noticing a certain woman sitting outside before the doors, begging constantly for her support, he said to her, \u201cO woman, is any of your limbs p. 295 defective, that you submit to such disgrace\u2014I mean that of begging,\u2014and do not rather work with the hands which God has given you, and procure your daily food?\u201d But she, groaning, answered, \u201cWould that I had hands able to work! But now they retain only the form of hands, being dead and rendered useless by my gnawing of them.\u201d Then Peter asked her, \u201cWhat is the cause of your suffering so terribly?\u201d And she answered, \u201cWeakness of soul; and nought else. For if I had the mind of a man, there was a precipice or a pool whence I should have thrown myself, and have been able to rest from my tormenting misfortunes.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literatu...","type":"page"}