Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily VI/Chapter 11

Chapter XI.&#8212;Clement Has Heard All This Before.

While Appion was allegorizing in this way, I became plunged in thought, and seemed not to be following what he was saying.&#160; So he interrupted his discourse, and said to me, &#8220;If you do not follow what I am saying, why should I speak at all?&#8221;&#160; And I answered, &#8220;Do not suppose that I do not understand what you say.&#160; I understand it thoroughly; and that the more that this is not the first time I have heard it.&#160; And that you may know that I am not ignorant of these things, I shall epitomize what you have said, and supply in their order, as I have heard them from others, the allegorical interpretations of those stories you have omitted.&#8221;&#160; And Appion said:&#160; &#8220;Do so.&#8221;