Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily II/Chapter 47

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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, Pseudo-Clementine Literature, The Clementine Homilies, Homily II
Anonymous, translated by Thomas Smith
Chapter 47
160215Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, Pseudo-Clementine Literature, The Clementine Homilies, Homily II — Chapter 47Thomas Smith (1817-1906)Anonymous

Chapter XLVII.—A Pertinent Question.

When I Clement heard this, I said, “Truly, this is a godliness; truly this is piety.”  And again I said:  “I would learn, therefore, why the Bible has written anything of this sort?  For I remember that you said that it was for the conviction of those who should dare to believe anything that was spoken against God.  But since you permit us, we venture to ask, at your command:  If any one, most beloved Peter, should choose to say to us, ‘The Scriptures are true, although to you the things spoken against God seem to be false,’ how should we answer him?”