{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0081155.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0081155.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0081155.htm","text":"Chapter X.\u2014Why Some Believe, and Others Do Not.\nAnd after Lazarus, Joseph, who also was one of his followers, said: \u201cYou have spoken all things rightly. Teach me also this, as I am eager to know it, why, when you give the same discourses to all, some believe and others disbelieve?\u201d And Peter said: \u201cIt is because my discourses are not charms, so that every one that hears them must without hesitation believe them. The fact that some believe, and others do not, points out to the intelligent the freedom of the will.\u201d And when he said this, we all blessed him.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter X","type":"page"}