Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily III/Chapter 21

Chapter XXI.&#8212;The Eating of the Forbidden Fruit Denied.

&#8220;He himself being the only true prophet, fittingly gave names to each animal, according to the merits of its nature, as having made it.&#160; For if he gave a name to any one, that was also the name of that which was made, being given by him who made it. &#160; How, then, had he still need to partake of a tree, that he might know what is good and what is evil, if he was commanded not to eat of it?&#160; But this senseless men believe, who think that a reasonless beast was more powerful than the God who made these things.