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Chapter XXXVI.—New
Revelations.
But Peter ordered us to rise from embracing our
father, lest we should kill him; and he himself, laying hold of his
hand, and lifting him up as from a deep sleep, and gradually reviving
him, began to set forth to him the whole transactions as they had
really happened:853
| 853 [This
recapitulation is peculiar to the Recognitions; in Homily XV. 4
the main facts are cited as a proof of divine
providence.—R.] | how his
brother had fallen in love with Matthidia, and how she, being very
modest, had been unwilling to inform her husband of his brother’s
lawless love, lest she should stir up hostility between the brothers,
and bring disgrace upon the family; and how she had wisely pretended a
dream, by which she was ordered to depart from the city with her twin
sons, leaving the younger one with his father; and how on their voyage
they had suffered shipwreck through the violence of a storm; and how,
when they were cast upon an island called Antaradus, Matthidia was
thrown by a wave upon a rock, but her twin children were seized by
pirates and carried to Cæsarea, and there sold to a pious woman,
who treated them as sons, and brought them up, and caused them to be
educated as gentlemen; and how the pirates had changed their names, and
called the one Niceta and the other Aquila; and how afterwards, through
common studies and acquaintanceship, they had adhered to Simon;
and how they had turned away from him when they saw him to be a
magician and a deceiver, and had come to Zacchæus; and how
subsequently they had been associated with himself; and how Clement
also, setting out from the city for the sake of learning the truth,
had, through his acquaintance with Barnabas, come to Cæsarea, and
had become known to him, and had adhered to him, and how he had been
taught by him the faith of his religion; and also how he had found and
recognised his mother begging at Antaradus, and how the whole island
rejoiced at his recognition of her; and also concerning her sojourn
with her most chaste hostess, and the cure that he had wrought upon
her, and concerning the liberality of Clement to those who had been
kind to his mother; and how afterwards, when Niceta and Aquila asked
who the strange woman was, and had heard the whole story from Clement,
they cried out that they were her twin sons Faustinus and Faustus; and
how they had unfolded the whole history of what had befallen them; and
how afterwards, by the persuasion of Peter himself, they were presented
to their mother with caution, lest she should be cut off by the sudden
joy.
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