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

Homily XX.

Chapter I.&#8212;Peter is Willing to Gratify Sophonias.

In the night-time Peter rose up and wakened us, and then sat down in his usual way, and said:&#160; &#8220;Ask me questions about anything you like.&#8221; &#160; And Sophonias was the first to begin to speak to him:&#160; &#8220;Will you explain to us who are eager to learn what is the real truth in regard to evil?&#8221;&#160; And Peter said:&#160; &#8220;I have already explained it in the course of my discussion with Simon; but because I stated the truth in regard to it in combination with other topics, it was not altogether clearly put; for many topics that seem to be of equal weight with the truth afford some kind of knowledge of the truth to the masses.&#160; So that, if now I state what I formerly stated to Simon along with many topics, do not imagine that you are not honoured with honour equal to his.&#8221;&#160; And Sophonias said:&#160; &#8220;You are right; for if you now separate it for us from many of the topics that were then discussed, you will make the truth more evident.&#8221;