{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0081096.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0081096.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0081096.htm","text":"Chapter I.\u2014Simon Maintains that the Framer of the World is Not the Highest God.\nAt break of day, when Peter went forth to discourse, Simon anticipated him, and said: \u201cWhen I went away yesterday, I promised to you to return to-day, and in a discussion show that he who framed the world is not the highest God, but that the highest God is another who alone is good, and who has remained unknown up to this time. At once, then, state to me whether you maintain that the framer of the world is the same as the lawgiver or not? If, then, he is the lawgiver, he is just; but if he is just, he is not good. But if he is not good, then it was another that Jesus proclaimed, when he said, 1369 \u2018Do not call me good; for one is good, the Father who is in the heavens.\u2019 Now a lawgiver cannot be both just and good, for these qualities do not harmonize.\u201d 1370 And Peter said: \u201cFirst tell us what are the actions which in your opinion constitute a person good, and what are those which constitute him just, in order that thus we may address our words to the same mark.\u201d And Simon said: \u201cDo you state first what in your opinion is goodness, and what justice.\u201d\n[Comp. xvii. 5, and Recognitions, iii. 37, 38.\u2014R.]","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literatu...","type":"page"}