{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0081037.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0081037.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0081037.htm","text":"Chapter X.\u2014Faustus Explains His Narrative to Peter.\nPeter seeing this, said: \u201cAre you Faustus, the husband of this woman, and the father of her children?\u201d And he said: \u201cI am.\u201d And Peter said: \u201cHow, then, did you relate to me your own history as if it were another\u2019s; telling p. 308 me of your toils, and sorrow, and burial?\u201d And our father answered: \u201cBeing of the family of C\u00e6sar, and not wishing to be discovered, I devised the narrative in another\u2019s name, in order that it might not be perceived who I was. For I knew that, if I were recognised, the governors in the place would learn this, and recall me to gratify C\u00e6sar, and would bestow upon me that former prosperity to which I had formerly bidden adieu with all the resolution I could summon. For I could not give myself up to a luxurious life when I had pronounced the strongest condemnation on myself, because I believed that I had been the cause of death to those who were loved by me.\u201d 1212\nLit., \u201cHaving judged the greatest things in regard to those who were loved by me, as having died.\u201d The text is doubtful; for the first Epitome has something quite different.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literatu...","type":"page"}