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

Homily II.

Chapter I.&#8212;Peter&#8217;s Attendants.

Therefore the next day, I Clement, awaking from sleep before dawn, and learning that Peter was astir, and was conversing with his attendants concerning the worship of God (there were sixteen of them, and I have thought good to set forth their names, as I subsequently learned them, that you may also know who they were.&#160; The first of them was Zacch&#230;us, who was once a publican, and Sophonias his brother; Joseph and his foster-brother Michaias; also Thomas and Eliezer the twins; also &#198;neas and Lazarus the priests; besides also Elis&#230;us, and Benjamin the son of Saphrus; as also Rubilus and Zacharias the builders; and Ananias and Hagg&#230;us the Jamminians; and Nicetas and Aquila the friends),&#8212;accordingly I went in and saluted him, and at his request sat down.