Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily XX/Chapter 19

Chapter XIX.&#8212;Peter&#8217;s Instructions to Faustus.

&#8220;When you are with these in Antioch, while you look like Simon, proclaim publicly your repentance, saying, &#8216;I Simon proclaim this to you:&#160; I confess that all my statements in regard to Peter are utterly false; for he is not a deceiver, nor a murderer, nor a juggler; nor are any of the evil things true which I, urged on by wrath, said previously in regard to him.&#160; I myself therefore beg of you, I who have been the cause of your hatred to him, cease from hating him; for he is the true apostle of the true Prophet that was sent by God for the salvation of the world.&#160; Wherefore also I counsel you to believe what he preaches; for if you do not, your whole city will be utterly destroyed.&#160; Now I wish you to know for what reason I have made this confession to you.&#160; This night angels of God scourged me, the impious one, terribly, as being an enemy to the herald of the truth.&#160; I beseech you, therefore, do not listen to me, even if I myself should come at another time and attempt to say anything against Peter.&#160; For I confess to you I am a magician, I am a deceiver, I am a juggler.&#160; Yet perhaps it is possible for me by repentance to wipe out the sins which were formerly committed by me.&#8217;&#8221;