Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily III/Chapter 50

Chapter L.&#8212;His Teaching Concerning the Scriptures.

Then Peter:&#160; &#8220;As to the mixture of truth with falsehood, I remember that on one occasion He, finding fault with the Sadducees, said, &#8216;Wherefore ye do err, not knowing the true things of the Scriptures; and on this account ye are ignorant of the power of God.&#8217; &#160; But if He cast up to them that they knew not the true things of the Scriptures, it is manifest that there are false things in them.&#160; And also, inasmuch as He said, &#8216;Be ye prudent money-changers,&#8217; it is because there are genuine and spurious words.&#160; And whereas He said, &#8216;Wherefore do ye not perceive that which is reasonable in the Scriptures?&#8217;&#160; He makes the understanding of him stronger who voluntarily judges soundly.