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Chapter
L.—Simon’s Presumption.
Then Peter:662
| 662 [With chaps. 50, 51,
comp. Homily XVII. 13, etc.—R.] |
“Does it not seem to you to be madness, that any one should take
upon himself to assert that there is another God than the God of all;
and should say that he supposes there is a certain power, and should
presume to affirm this to others, before he himself is sure of what he
says? Is any one so rash as to believe your words, of which he
sees that you are yourself doubtful, and to admit that there is a
certain power unknown to God the Creator, and to Moses, and the
prophets, and the law, and even to Jesus our Master, which power is so
good, that it will not make itself known to any but to one only, and
that one such an one as thou! Then, further, if that is a new
power, why does it not confer upon us some new sense, in addition to
those five which we possess, that by that new sense, bestowed upon us
by it, we may be able to receive and understand itself which is
new? Or if it cannot bestow such a sense upon us, how has it
bestowed it upon you? Or if it has revealed itself to you, why
not also to us? But if you of yourself understand things which
not even the prophets were able to perceive or understand, come, tell
us what each one of us is thinking now; for if there is such a spirit
in you that you know those things which are above the heavens, which
are unknown to all, and incomprehensible by all, much more easily do
you know the thoughts of men upon the earth. But if you cannot
know the thoughts of us who are standing here, how can you say that you
know those things which, you assert, are known to
none?”
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