Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily XI/Chapter 1

Homily XI.

Chapter I.&#8212;Morning Exercises.

Therefore on the fourth day at Tripolis, Peter rising and finding us awake, saluted us and went out to the reservoir, that he might bathe and pray; and we also did so after him.&#160; To us, therefore, when we had prayed together, and were set down before him, he gave a discourse touching the necessity of purity.&#160; And when thereafter it was day, he permitted the multitudes to enter.&#160; Then, when a great crowd had entered, he saluted them according to custom, and began to speak.