{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0081146.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0081146.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0081146.htm","text":"Chapter I.\u2014Peter is Willing to Gratify Sophonias.\nIn the night-time Peter rose up and wakened us, and then sat down in his usual way, and said: \u201cAsk me questions about anything you like.\u201d 1478 And Sophonias was the first to begin to speak to him: \u201cWill you explain to us who are eager to learn what is the real truth in regard to evil?\u201d And Peter said: \u201cI have already explained it in the course of my discussion with Simon; but because I stated the truth in regard to it in combination with other topics, it was not altogether clearly put; for many topics that seem to be of equal weight with the truth afford some kind of knowledge of the truth to the masses. So that, if now I state what I formerly stated to Simon along with many topics, do not imagine that you are not 1479 honoured with honour equal to his.\u201d And Sophonias said: \u201cYou are right; for if you now separate it for us from many of the topics that were then discussed, you will make the truth more evident.\u201d\n[Chaps. 1\u201310 are also peculiar to the Homilies, though there are incidental resemblances to passages in the Recognitions, particularly in the presentation of free-will.\u2014R.]\n339:1479\n\u201cNot\u201d is supplied by conjecture.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter I","type":"page"}