{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0081167.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0081167.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0081167.htm","text":"Chapter XXII.\u2014Appion and Athenodorus Return to Simon.\nWhen Appion and those who were with him heard this, they howled and lamented, saying: p. 346 \u201cWhy did you not receive him?\u201d And when at the same time Athenodorus wished to say to me, \u201cIt was Faustus, your father;\u201d Appion anticipated him, and said, \u201cWe learned from some one that Simon, finding him, urged him to go along with him, 1544 Faustus himself entreating him, since he did not wish to see his sons after they had become Jews. And hearing this, we came, for his own sake, in search of him. But since he is not here, it is plain that he spake the truth who gave us the information which we, hearing it from him, have given to you.\u201d And I Clement, perceiving the design of Peter, that he wished to beget a suspicion in them that he intended to look out among them for the old man, that they might be afraid and take to flight, assisted in his design, and said to Appion: \u201cListen to me, my dearest Appion. We were eager to give to him, as being our father, what we ourselves deemed to be good. But if he himself did not wish to receive it, but, on the contrary, fled from us in horror, I shall make a somewhat harsh remark, \u2018Nor do we care for him.\u2019\u201d And when I said this, they went away, as if irritated by my savageness; and, as we learn next day, they went to Jud\u00e6a in the track of Simon.\nThis is supplied purely by conjecture.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literatu...","type":"page"}