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

Chapter X.&#8212;Simon is Driven Away.

And the people were afraid, and promised to do whatever he should command.&#160; &#8220;Let none of you, then,&#8221; said Peter, &#8220;either hold conversation with these sorcerers, or have any thing to do with them.&#8221;&#160; And as soon as the people heard this concise command, they took up sticks, and pursued them till they had driven them wholly out of the town.&#160; And they who were sick and possessed with devils came and cast themselves at Peter&#8217;s feet.&#160; And he seeing all this, and anxious to free them from their terror, said to them:&#8212;