Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily II/Chapter 51

Chapter LI.&#8212;Weigh in the Balance.

Then Peter said:&#160; &#8220;If, therefore, some of the Scriptures are true and some false, with good reason said our Master, &#8216;Be ye good money-changers,&#8217; inasmuch as in the Scriptures there are some true sayings and some spurious.&#160; And to those who err by reason of the false scriptures He fitly showed the cause of their error, saying, &#8216;Ye do therefore err, not knowing the true things of the Scriptures; for this reason ye are ignorant also of the power of God.&#8217;&#8221;&#160; Then said I:&#160; &#8220;You have spoken very excellently.&#8221;