Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily IV/Chapter 10

Chapter X.&#8212;A Cool Retreat.

And a certain one amongst them&#8212;a rich man, and possessing a garden of evergreen plants &#8212;said:&#160; &#8220;Since it is very hot, let us retire for a little from the city to my gardens.&#8221;&#160; Accordingly they went forth, and sat down in a place where there were pure streams of cool water, and a green shade of all sorts of trees.&#160; There I sat pleasantly, and the others round about me; and they being silent, instead of a verbal request made to me, showed by their eager looks to me that they required the proof of my assertion.&#160; And therefore I proceeded to speak thus:&#8212;