{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0081125.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0081125.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0081125.htm","text":"Chapter VI.\u2014Peter Accuses Simon of Being Worse Than the Devil.\nAnd Simon said: \u201cWhen you have discussed all the subjects which I have laid before you, I shall show you the cause of evil. Then I shall also reply to what you have now said, and prove that that God whom you affirm to be blameless is blameable.\u201d And Peter said: \u201cSince I perceive from what you say at the commencement that you are striving after nothing else than to subject God, as being the author of evil, to blame, I have resolved to go along with you all the ways you like, and to prove that God is entirely free from blame.\u201d And Simon said: \u201cYou say this as loving God, whom you suppose you know; but you are not right.\u201d And Peter said: \u201cBut you, as being wicked, and hating God whom you have not known, utter blasphemous words.\u201d And Simon said: \u201cRemember that you have likened me to the author of evil.\u201d And Peter said: \u201cI confess it, I was wrong in comparing you to the evil one; for I was compelled to do so, because I have not found one who is your equal, or worse than you. For this reason I likened you to the evil one; for you happen to be much more wicked than the author of evil. For no one can prove that the evil one spoke against God; but all of us who are present see you speaking daringly against Him.\u201d And Simon said: \u201cHe who seeks the truth ought not to gratify any one in any respect contrary to what is really true. For why does he make the inquiry at all? Why, I ask? for I am not also able, laying aside the accurate investigation of things, to spend all my time in the praise of that God whom I do not know.\u201d 1420\nWe have adopted the pointing of Wieseler.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter VI","type":"page"}