Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily II/Chapter 47

Chapter XLVII.&#8212;A Pertinent Question.

When I Clement heard this, I said, &#8220;Truly, this is a godliness; truly this is piety.&#8221;&#160; And again I said:&#160; &#8220;I would learn, therefore, why the Bible has written anything of this sort?&#160; For I remember that you said that it was for the conviction of those who should dare to believe anything that was spoken against God.&#160; But since you permit us, we venture to ask, at your command:&#160; If any one, most beloved Peter, should choose to say to us, &#8216;The Scriptures are true, although to you the things spoken against God seem to be false,&#8217; how should we answer him?&#8221;