Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily II/Chapter 49

Chapter XLIX.&#8212;Reductio a.d. Absurdum.

Then Peter answered:&#160; &#8220;You have presented us with a matter that can easily be answered. &#160;However, listen, how God is ignorant of nothing, but even foreknows.&#160; But first answer me what I ask of you.&#160; He who wrote the Bible, and told how the world was made, and said that God does not foreknow, was he a man or not?&#8221;&#160; Then I said:&#160; &#8220;He was a man.&#8221;&#160; Then Peter answered:&#160; &#8220;How, then, was it possible for him, being a man, to know assuredly how the world was made, and that God does not foreknow?&#8221;