Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily II/Chapter 5

Chapter V.&#8212;Excellence of the Knowledge of the True Prophet.

And Peter, being greatly pleased with this, answered:&#160; &#8220;Already hath the rectifying process taken its end, as regards you, knowing as you do the greatness of the infallible prophecy, without which it is impossible for any one to receive that which is supremely profitable.&#160; For of many and diverse blessings which are in the things which are or which may be, the most blessed of all&#8212;whether it be eternal life, or perpetual health, or a perfect understanding, or light, or joy, or immortality, or whatever else there is or that can be supremely good in the nature of things&#8212;cannot be possessed without first knowing things as they are; and this knowledge cannot be otherwise obtained than by first becoming acquainted with the Prophet of the truth.