Chapter XVI.—Simon Magus: Hopelessness of His Case. But Peter, hearing these things, said with tears: 611 “Greatly do I wonder at the infinite patience of God, and, on the other hand, at the audacity of human rashness in some. For what further reason can be found to persuade Simon that God judges the unrighteous, since he persuades himself that he employs the obedience of souls for the service of his crimes?