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

Chapter XXVIII.&#8212;Difficulty of Judging.

Then said Peter, &#8220;These things are ordinary:&#160; now hear what is greater.&#160; There are some men whose sins or good deeds are partly their own, and partly those of others; but it is right that each one be punished for his own sins, and rewarded for his own merits.&#160; But it is impossible for any one except a prophet, who alone has omniscience, to know with respect to the things that are done by any one, which are his own, and which are not; for all are seen as done by him.&#8221;&#160; Then I said, &#8220;I would learn how some of men&#8217;s wrong-doings or right-doings are their own, and some belong to others.&#8221;