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Chapter XVII.—Peter Requests Him to Be His
Attendant.
Having thus spoken, he set forth to me so openly
and so clearly who that Prophet was, and how He might be found, that I
seemed to have before my eyes, and to handle with my hand, the proofs
which he produced concerning the prophetic truth; and I was struck with
intense astonishment, how no one sees, though placed before his eyes,
those things which all are seeking for. Whence, by his command,
reducing into order what he had spoken to me, I compiled a book
concerning the true Prophet, and sent it to you from Cæsarea by
his command. For he said that he had received a command from you
to send you every year an account of his sayings and doings.540
| 540 [Comp. Homily I. 20,
where there is a curious inconsistency. Both accounts seem to
insert this to tally with the fictitious relation to James, and both
may be used to support the theory of a common documentary
basis.—R.] | Meantime, at the beginning of his
discourse which he delivered to me the first day, when he had
instructed me very fully concerning the true Prophet, and very many
things besides, he added also this: “See,” said he,
“for the future, and be present at the discussions which whenever
any necessity arises, I shall hold with those who contradict; against
whom, when I dispute, even if I shall seem to be worsted, I shall not
be afraid of your being led to doubt of those things which I have
stated to you; because, even if I shall seem to be beaten, yet those
things shall not therefore seem to be uncertain which the true Prophet
has delivered to us. Yet I hope that we shall not be overcome in
disputations either, if only our hearers are reasonable, and friends of
truth, who can discern the force and bearing of words, and recognise
what discourse comes from the sophistical art, not containing truth,
but an image of truth; and what that is, which, uttered simply and
without craft, depends for all its power not on show and ornament, but
on truth and reason.”
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