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Chapter
VIII—Instincts.
When the old man had said this, I Clement said to
him: “Hear, my father: if my brother Niceta bring you
to acknowledge that the world is not governed without the providence of
God, I shall be able to answer you in that part which remains
concerning the genesis; for I am well acquainted with this
doctrine.” And when I had thus spoken, my brother Aquila
said: “What is the use of our calling him father,
when we are commanded to call no man father upon earth?”812
Then, looking to the old man, he
said, “Do not take it amiss, my father, that I have found fault
with my brother for calling you father, for we have a precept
not to call any one by that name.” When Aquila said that,
all the assembly of the bystanders, as well as the old man and
Peter, laughed.
And when Aquila asked the reason of their all laughing, I said to
him: “Because you yourself do the very thing which you find
fault with in another; for you called the old man
father.” But he denied it, saying: “I am
not aware that I called him father.” Meantime Peter
was moved with certain suspicions,813
| 813 [Another
foreshadowing of the approaching recognition; peculiar to this
narrative.—R.] | as he told
us afterwards; and looking to Niceta, he said, “Go on with what
you have proposed.”
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