Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily XX/Chapter 10

Chapter X.&#8212;Why Some Believe, and Others Do Not.

And after Lazarus, Joseph, who also was one of his followers, said:&#160; &#8220;You have spoken all things rightly.&#160; Teach me also this, as I am eager to know it, why, when you give the same discourses to all, some believe and others disbelieve?&#8221;&#160; And Peter said:&#160; &#8220;It is because my discourses are not charms, so that every one that hears them must without hesitation believe them.&#160; The fact that some believe, and others do not, points out to the intelligent the freedom of the will.&#8221;&#160; And when he said this, we all blessed him.