Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily XIV/Chapter 6

Chapter VI.&#8212;The Old Man Opposes His Personal Experience to the Argument of Peter.

&#8220;And the old man answered: &#160; &#8216;You have spoken truly, and yet, notwithstanding all your incomparable demonstration, I am prevented from yielding assent by my own personal knowledge.&#160; For I was an astrologer, and dwelt first at Rome; and then forming a friendship with one who was of the family of C&#230;sar, I ascertained accurately the genesis of himself and his wife.&#160; And tracing their history, I find all the deeds actually accomplished in exact accordance with their genesis, and therefore I cannot yield to your argument.&#160; For the arrangement of her genesis was that which makes women commit adultery, fall in love with their own slaves, and perish abroad in the water.&#160; And this actually took place; for she fell in love with her own slave, and not being able to bear the reproach, she fled with him, hurried to a foreign land, shared his bed, and perished in the sea.&#8217;