Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily II/Chapter 20

Chapter XX.&#8212;Divorced for the Faith.

&#8220;She, therefore, having taken up a manner of life according to the law, was, with the daughter who had been healed, driven out from her home by her husband, whose sentiments were opposed to ours.&#160; But she, being faithful to her engagements, and being in affluent circumstances, remained a widow herself, but gave her daughter in marriage to a certain man who was attached to the true faith, and who was poor.&#160; And, abstaining from marriage for the sake of her daughter, she bought two boys and educated them, and had them in place of sons.&#160; And they being educated from their boyhood with Simon Magus, have learned all things concerning him.&#160; For such was their friendship, that they were associated with him in all things in which he wished to unite with them.