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Chapter
II.—Genesis.
Then the old man proceeded to say: “I
saw you bathe in the sea, and afterwards retire into a secret place;
wherefore observing, without your noticing me, what you were doing, I
saw you praying. Therefore, pitying your error, I waited till you
came out, that I might speak to you, and instruct you not to err in an
observance of this sort; because there is neither any God, nor any
worship, neither is there any providence in the world, but all things
are done by fortuitous chance and genesis, as I have discovered
most clearly for myself, being accomplished beyond others in the
discipline of learning.807
| 807 [In Homily XIV.
2–5 there is a discussion somewhat similar to the beginning of
this one, but reported by the Apostle to the family of
Clement.—R.] | Do not err,
therefore: for whether you pray, or whether you do not pray,
whatever your genesis contains, that shall befall
you.” Then I Clement was affected, I know not how, in my
heart, recollecting many things in him that seemed familiar to me; for
some one says well, that that which is sprung from any one, although it
may be long absent, yet a spark of relationship is never
extinguished.808
| 808 [There are a
number of indications, like this, in the narrative, foreshadowing the
recognition of the old man as the father. In the Homilies
nothing similar appears.—R.] | Therefore
I began to ask of him who and whence he was, and how descended.
But he, not wishing to answer these questions, said: “What
has that to do with what I have told you? But first, if you
please, let us converse of those matters which we have propounded; and
afterwards, if circumstances require, we can disclose to one another,
as friends to friends, our names, and families, and country, and other
things connected with these.” Yet we all admired the
eloquence of the man, and the gravity of his manners, and the calmness
of his speech.
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