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

Chapter X.&#8212;Faustus Explains His Narrative to Peter.

Peter seeing this, said:&#160; &#8220;Are you Faustus, the husband of this woman, and the father of her children?&#8221;&#160; And he said:&#160; &#8220;I am.&#8221;&#160; And Peter said:&#160; &#8220;How, then, did you relate to me your own history as if it were another&#8217;s; telling me of your toils, and sorrow, and burial?&#8221;&#160; And our father answered:&#160; &#8220;Being of the family of C&#230;sar, and not wishing to be discovered, I devised the narrative in another&#8217;s name, in order that it might not be perceived who I was.&#160; For I knew that, if I were recognised, the governors in the place would learn this, and recall me to gratify C&#230;sar, and would bestow upon me that former prosperity to which I had formerly bidden adieu with all the resolution I could summon.&#160; For I could not give myself up to a luxurious life when I had pronounced the strongest condemnation on myself, because I believed that I had been the cause of death to those who were loved by me.&#8221;