Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily I/Chapter 22

Chapter XXII.&#8212;Thanksgiving.

When I had thus spoken, Peter said:&#160; &#8220;I give thanks to God, both for your salvation and for my satisfaction.&#160; For I am truly pleased to know that you apprehend what is the greatness of prophecy.&#160; Since, then, as you say, if I myself should ever wish&#8212;which God forbid&#8212;to transfer you to another doctrine, I shall not be able to persuade you, begin from to-morrow to attend upon me in the discussions with the adversaries.&#160; And to-morrow I have one with Simon Magus.&#8221; &#160;And having spoken thus, and he himself having partaken of food in private, he ordered me also to partake; and having blessed the food, and having given thanks after being satisfied, and having giving me an account of this matter, he went on to say:&#160; &#8220;May God grant you in all things to be made like unto me, and having been baptized, to partake of the same table with me.&#8221;&#160; And having thus spoken, he enjoined me to go to rest; for now indeed my bodily nature demanded sleep.