Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily XVI/Chapter 12

Chapter XII.&#8212;Peter&#8217;s Explanation of the Passage.

And Peter answered:&#160; &#8220;One is He who said to His Wisdom, &#8216;Let us make a man.&#8217;&#160; But His Wisdom was that with which He Himself always rejoiced as with His own spirit.&#160; It is united as soul to God, but it is extended by Him, as hand, fashioning the universe.&#160; On this account, also, one man was made, and from him went forth also the female.&#160; And being a unity generically, it is yet a duality, for by expansion and contraction the unity is thought to be a duality.&#160; So that I act rightly in offering up all the honour to one God as to parents.&#8221;&#160; And Simon said:&#160; &#8220;What then?&#160; Even if the Scriptures say that there are other gods, will you not accept the opinion?&#8221;