Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily XVI/Chapter 1

Homily

XVI.

Chapter I.—Simon Wishes to

Discuss with Peter the Unity of God.

At break of day Peter went

out, and reaching the place where he was wont to discourse, he saw a

great multitude assembled.  At the very time when he was going to

discourse, one of his deacons entered, and said:  “Simon has

come from Antioch, starting as

soon as it was evening, having learned that you promised to speak on

the unity of God; and he

is ready, along with Athenodorus the Epicurean, to come to hear your

speech, in order that he may publicly oppose all the arguments ever

adduced by you for the unity of God.”  Just as the deacon

said this, lo! Simon himself entered, accompanied by Athenodorus and

some other friends.  And before Peter spoke at all, he took the

first word, and said:—

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