{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0081126.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0081126.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0081126.htm","text":"Chapter VII.\u2014Peter Suspects Simon of Not Believing Even in a God.\nAnd Peter said: \u201cYou are not so blessed as to praise Him, nor indeed can you do such a good deed as this; for then you would be full of Him. For thus said our Teacher, who always spoke the truth: \u2018Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.\u2019 1421 Whence you, abounding in evil purposes, through ignorance speak against the only good God. And not yet suffering what you deserve to suffer for the words which you have dared to utter, 1422 you either imagine that there will be no judgment, or perchance you think that there is not even a God. Whence, not comprehending such long-suffering as His, you are moving on to still greater madness.\u201d And Simon said: \u201cDo not imagine that you will frighten me into not investigating the truth of your examples. For I am so eager for the truth, that for its sake I will not shrink from undergoing danger. If, then, you have anything to say in regard to the propositions made by me at the commencement, say it now.\u201d\nWe have altered the punctuation. Editors connect this clause with the previous sentence, and change \u1f24 of the ms. into \u03b5\u1f30.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter VII","type":"page"}