{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0081016.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0081016.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0081016.htm","text":"Chapter XI.\u2014Mattidia Has Unintentionally Fasted One Day.\n\u201cBut since your mother has real confidence in the efficacy of baptism, 1172 let her fast at least one day before her baptism.\u201d But she swore: \u201cDuring the two past days, while I related to the woman 1173 all the events connected with the recognition, I could not, in consequence of my excessive joy, partake of food: only yesterday I took a little water.\u201d Peter\u2019s wife bore testimony to her statement with an oath, saying: \u201cIn truth she did not taste anything.\u201d And Aquila, who must rather be called Faustinianus 1174 in future, said: \u201cThere is nothing, therefore, to prevent her being baptized.\u201d And Peter, smiling, replied: \u201cBut that is not a baptismal fast which has not taken place on account of the baptism itself.\u201d And Faustinus answered: \u201cPerhaps God, not wishing to separate our mother a single day after our recognition from our table, has arranged beforehand the fast. For as she was chaste in the times of her ignorance, doing what the true religion inculcated, 1175 so even now perhaps God has arranged that she should fast one day before for the sake of the true baptism, that, from the first day of her recognising us, she might take her meals along with us.\u201d\nLit., \u201csince your mother is faithfully disposed in regard to baptism.\u201d\n302:1173\nThe second Epitome makes her the wife of Peter: a various reading mentions also her hostess.\n302:1174\nDressel strangely prefers the reading \u201cFaustinus.\u201d\n302:1175\nLit., \u201cdoing what was becoming to the truth.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter XI","type":"page"}