{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0081073.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0081073.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0081073.htm","text":"Chapter XXI.\u2014Simon Promises to Appeal to the Teaching of Christ. Peter Dismisses the Multitudes.\nWhen Peter said this, Simon answered: \u201cSince I see you skilfully hinting that what is written in the books 1310 against the framer 1311 of the world does not happen to be true, to-morrow I shall show, from the discourses of your teacher, that he asserted that the framer of the world was not the highest God.\u201d And when Simon said this, he went out. But Peter said to the assembled multitudes: \u201cIf Simon can do no other injury to us in regard to God, he at least prevents you from listening to the words that can purify the soul.\u201d On Peter saying this, much whispering arose amongst the crowds, saying, \u201cWhat necessity is there for permitting him to come in here, and utter his blasphemies against God?\u201d And Peter heard, and said, \u201cWould that the doctrines against God which are intended to try men 1312 went no further than Simon! For there will be, as the Lord said, false apostles, false prophets, 1313 heresies, desires for supremacy, who, as I conjecture, finding their beginning in Simon, who blasphemes God, will work together in the assertion of the same opinions against God as those of Simon.\u201d And saying this with tears, he summoned the multitudes to him by his hand; and when they came, he laid his hands upon them and prayed, and then dismissed them, telling them to come at an earlier hour next day. Saying this, and groaning, he entered and went to sleep, without taking food.\nA distinction has to be made between the Creator, or maker out of nothing, and the framer, or fashioner, or Demiurge, who puts the matter into shape.\n317:1312\nLit., \u201cthe word against God for the trial of men.\u201d\n317:1313\nComp. Matt. xxiv. 24.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter XXI","type":"page"}