Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily XIV/Chapter 4

Chapter IV.&#8212;Peter&#8217;s Arguments Against Genesis.

&#8220;And I said:&#160; &#8216;If all things are subject to Genesis, and you are fully convinced that this is the case, your thoughts and advice are contrary to your own opinion. &#160; For if it is impossible even to think in opposition to Genesis, why do you toil in vain, advising me to do what cannot be done?&#160; Yea, moreover, even if Genesis subsists, do not make haste to prevail on me not to worship Him who is also Lord of the stars, by whose wish that a thing should not take place, that thing becomes an impossibility.&#160; For always that which is subject must obey that which rules.&#160; As far, however, as the worship of the common gods is concerned, that is superfluous, if Genesis has sway.&#160; For neither does anything happen contrary to what seems good to fate, nor are they themselves able to do anything, since they are subject to their own universal Genesis.&#160; If Genesis exists, there is this objection to it, that that which is not first has the rule; or, in other words, the uncreated cannot be subject, for the uncreated, as being uncreated, has nothing that is older than itself.&#8217;