{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0081164.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0081164.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0081164.htm","text":"Chapter XIX.\u2014Peter\u2019s Instructions to Faustus.\n\u201cWhen you are with these in Antioch, while you look like Simon, proclaim publicly your repentance, saying, \u2018I Simon proclaim this to you: I confess 1535 that all my statements in regard to Peter are utterly false; 1536 for he is not a deceiver, nor a murderer, nor a juggler; nor are any of the evil things true which I, urged on by wrath, said previously in regard to him. I myself therefore beg of you, I who have been the cause of your hatred to him, cease from hating him; for he is the true apostle of the true Prophet that was sent by God for the salvation of the world. Wherefore also I counsel you to believe what he preaches; 1537 for if you do not, your whole city will be utterly destroyed. Now I wish you to know for what reason I have made this confession to you. This night angels of God scourged me, the impious one, terribly, as being an enemy to the herald of the truth. I beseech you, therefore, do not listen to me, even if I myself should come at another time and attempt to say anything against Peter. For I confess to you I am a magician, I am a deceiver, I am a juggler. Yet perhaps it is possible for me by repentance to wipe out the sins which were formerly committed by me.\u2019\u201d\nPartly filled up from Epitome and Recognitions.\n345:1537","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literatu...","type":"page"}