Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily III/Chapter 63

Chapter LXIII.&#8212;Zacch&#230;us Appointed.

&#8220;But of those who are present, whom shall I choose but Zacch&#230;us, to whom also the Lord went in and rested, judging him worthy to be saved?&#8221;&#160; And having said this, he laid his hand upon Zacch&#230;us, who stood by, and forced him to sit down in his own chair.&#160; But Zacch&#230;us, falling at his feet, begged that he would permit him to decline the rulership; promising, at the same time, and saying, &#8220;Whatever it behoves the ruler to do, I will do; only grant me not to have this name; for I am afraid of assuming the name of the rulership, for it teems with bitter envy and danger.&#8221;