{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0081064.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0081064.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0081064.htm","text":"Chapter XII.\u2014Peter\u2019s Explanation of the Passage.\nAnd Peter answered: \u201cOne is He who said to His Wisdom, \u2018Let us make a man.\u2019 But His Wisdom 1290 was that with which He Himself always rejoiced 1291 as with His own spirit. It is united as soul to God, but it is extended by Him, as hand, fashioning the universe. On this account, also, one man was made, and from him went forth also the female. And being a unity generically, it is yet a duality, for by expansion and contraction the unity is thought to be a duality. So that I act rightly in offering up all the honour to one God as to parents.\u201d And Simon said: \u201cWhat then? Even if the Scriptures say that there are other gods, will you not accept the opinion?\u201d\nThis is the only passage in the Homilies relating to the \u03c3\u03bf\u03c6\u03af\u03b1. The text is in some parts corrupt. It is critically discussed by Uhlhorn, some of whose emendations are adopted by Dressel and translated here.\n315:1291","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter XII","type":"page"}