Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily XX/Chapter 20

Chapter XX.&#8212;Faustus, His Wife, and Sons, Prepare to Go to Antioch.

When Peter suggested this, my father said:&#160; &#8220;I know what you want; wherefore take no trouble.&#160; For assuredly I shall take good care, when I reach that place, to make such statements in regard to you as I ought to make.&#8221;&#160; And Peter again suggested:&#160; &#8220;When, then, you perceive the city changing from its hatred of me, and longing to see me, send information to me of this, and I shall come to you immediately.&#160; And when I arrive there, that same day I shall remove the strange shape which now invests you, and I shall make your own unmistakeably visible to your own people and to all others.&#8221;&#160; Saying this, he made his sons, my brothers, and our mother Mattidia to go along with him; and he also commanded some of his more intimate acquaintances to accompany him.&#160; But my mother was unwilling to go with him, and said:&#160; &#8220;I seem to be an adulteress if I associate with the shape of Simon; but if I shall be compelled to go along with him, it is impossible for me to recline on the same couch with him!&#160; But I do not know if I shall be persuaded to go along with him.&#8221;&#160; And while she was very unwilling to go, Annubion urged her, saying:&#160; &#8220;Believe me and Peter, and the very voice itself, that this is Faustus your husband, whom I love not less than you.&#160; And I myself will go along with him.&#8221;&#160; When Annubion said this, our mother promised to go with him.