and how the Holy Ghost came upon the heathen, and said,
"If God gave them the gift of the Holy Ghost
as unto us at the beginning in fiery tongues,
what manner of man am I, that I could forbid God?
Then the Jews were silent after they had heard this,
and glorified God, in that He willed to grant
to the heathen repentance unto the heavenly life.
There was a great servant of God hight Marcellus,
who followed Simon the shameful sorcerer,
until the blessed Peter drove away the impious man.
Then Marcellus left the wicked sorcerer,
and followed Peter, and submitted to baptism.
Now this Marcellus hath recorded how St. Peter's daughter,
named Petronilla, departed from the world to Christ.
(Peter had a wife before he was converted
to the family of Christ, but he afterwards renounced
worldly desires, and conjugal intercourse,
because Christ ordained chastity in the world,
and all his followers walked in chastity,
even as Peter indeed said to him,
Ecce nos reliquimus omniay et secuti sumus te; quid ergo erit nobis?
'Behold, we have left all things in the world
and now follow Thee, what wilt thou provide for us?
In the beginning of the world said Almighty God,
'Be ye multiplied, and replenish the earth;'
and Christ desired at His coming to establish chastity,
and preserved His holy household in chastity.
Men had in the beginning their kindred to wife,
and well they might, for the lack of women;
and whosoever doth so now, will not have God's blessing.
Under Moses' law, the bishop was to have
