Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily XVII/Chapter 1

Homily XVII.

Chapter I.&#8212;Simon Comes to Peter.

The next day, therefore, as Peter was to hold a discussion with Simon, he rose earlier than usual and prayed.&#160; On ceasing to pray, Zacch&#230;us came in, and said:&#160; &#8220;Simon is seated without, discoursing with about thirty of his own special followers.&#8221;&#160; And Peter said:&#160; &#8220;Let him talk until the multitude assemble, and then let us begin the discussion in the following way.&#160; We shall hear all that has been said by him, and having fitted our reply to this, we shall go out and discourse.&#8221;&#160; And assuredly so it happened.&#160; Zacch&#230;us, therefore, went out, and not long after entered again, and communicated to Peter the discourse delivered by Simon against him.