Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily IV/Chapter 2

Chapter II.&#8212;Simon&#8217;s Practices.

&#8220;For we hear that Simon the magician, being worsted at C&#230;sarea in the discussion with our lord Peter, immediately hastened hither, and is doing much mischief.&#160; For he is slandering Peter, in opposition to truth, to all the adversaries, and stealing away the souls of the multitude.&#160; For he being a magician, calls him a magician; and he being a deceiver, proclaims him as a deceiver.&#160; And although in the discussions he was beaten in all points, and fled, yet he says that he was victorious; and he constantly charges them that they ought not to listen to Peter,&#8212;as if, forsooth, he were anxious that they may not be fascinated by a terrible magician.