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Book IX.
Chapter I.—An
Explanation.
On the following day,
Peter, along with us, hastened early to the place in which the
discussion had been held the day before; and when he saw that great
crowds had assembled there to hear, and saw the old man with them, he
said to him:834
| 834 [The
discourses in book ix. are peculiar to the Recognitions not only
in their position in the story, but to a remarkably large extent in the
matter.—R.] |
“Old man, it was agreed yesterday that you should confer to-day
with Clement; and that you should either show that nothing takes place
apart from genesis, or that Clement should prove that there is
no such thing as genesis, but that what we do is in our own
power.” To this the old man answered: “I both
remember what was agreed upon, and I keep in memory the words which you
spoke after the agreement was made, in which you taught that it is
impossible for man to know any thing, unless he learn from the true
Prophet.” Then Peter said: “You do not know
what I meant; but I shall now explain to you. I spoke of the will
and purpose of God, which He had before the world was, and by which
purpose He made the world, appointed times, gave the law, promised a
world to come to the righteous for the rewarding of their good deeds,
and decreed punishments to the unjust according to a judicial
sentence. I said that this counsel and this will of God cannot be
found out by men, because no man can gather the mind of God from
conjectures and opinion, unless a prophet sent by Him declare it.
I did not therefore speak of
any doctrines or studies, that they cannot be found out or known
without a prophet; for I know that both arts and sciences can be known
and practised by men, which they have learned, not from the true
Prophet, but from human instructors.
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