Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily II/Chapter 4

Chapter IV.&#8212;A Request.

&#8220;However, I have learned, O Clement, how that in Alexandria Barnabas perfectly expounded to you the word respecting prophecy.&#160; Was it not so?&#8221;&#160; I answered, &#8220;Yes, and exceeding well.&#8221;&#160; Then Peter:&#160; &#8220;Therefore it is not necessary now to occupy with the instructions which you know, the time which may serve us for other instructions which you do not know.&#8221;&#160; Then said I:&#160; &#8220;You have rightly said, O Peter.&#160; But vouchsafe this to me, who purpose always to attend upon you, continuously to expound to me, a delighted hearer, the doctrine of the Prophet.&#160; For, apart from Him, as I learned from Barnabas, it is impossible to learn the truth.&#8221;