Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily V/Chapter 28

Chapter XXVIII.&#8212;The Hoax Confessed.

&#8220;When I heard this, I said to Appion:&#160; &#8216;Now I shall confess the truth to you.&#160; I was not enamoured of the woman, or of any one else, my soul being exceedingly spent upon other desires, and upon the investigation of true doctrines.&#160; And till now, although I have examined many doctrines of philosophers, I have inclined to none of them, excepting only that of the Jews,&#8212;a certain merchant of theirs having sojourned here in Rome, selling linen clothes, and a fortunate meeting having set simply before me the doctrine of the unity of God.&#8217;