Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily II/Chapter 41

Chapter XLI.&#8212;Asking for Information, Not Contradiction.

Then I Clement, hearing this, said:&#160; &#8220;Truly I rejoice, and I give thanks to God, who in all things doeth well.&#160; However, he knows that I shall be able to think nothing other than that all things are for God.&#160; Wherefore do not suppose that I ask questions, as doubting the words concerning God, or those that are to be spoken, but rather that I may learn, and so be able myself to instruct another who is ingenuously willing to learn.&#160; Wherefore tell me what are the falsehoods added to the Scriptures, and how it comes that they are really false.&#8221;&#160; Then Peter answered:&#160; &#8220;Even although you had not asked me, I should have gone on in order, and afforded you the exposition of these matters, as I promised.&#160; Learn, then, how the Scriptures misrepresent Him in many respects, that you may know when you happen upon them.