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Chapter
II.—Misrepresentation of Peter’s Doctrine.
In order, therefore, that the like may also happen
to those among us as to these Seventy, give the books of my preachings
to our brethren, with the like mystery of initiation, that they may
indoctrinate those who wish to take part in teaching; for if it be not
so done, our word of truth will be rent into many opinions. And
this I know, not as being a prophet, but as already seeing the
beginning of this very evil. For some from among the Gentiles
have rejected my legal preaching, attaching themselves to certain
lawless and trifling preaching of the man who is my enemy.890
| 890 [This is one of the
strongest anti-Pauline insinuations in the entire
literature.—R.] | And these things some have attempted
while I am still alive, to transform my words by certain various
interpretations, in order to the dissolution of the law; as though I
also myself were of such a mind, but did not freely proclaim it, which
God forbid! For such a thing were to act in opposition to the law
of God which was spoken by Moses, and was borne witness to by our Lord
in respect of its eternal continuance; for thus he spoke:
“The heavens and the earth shall pass away, but one jot or one
tittle shall in no wise pass from the law.”891
| 891 Matt. v. 18; comp. Matt. xxiv. 35; Mark xiii.
31; Luke xxii. 33.
[This is a fair specimen of the loose method of Scripture citation
characteristic of the Clementine literature. Sometimes the
meaning is perverted.—R.] | And this He has said, that
all things might come to pass. But these men, professing, I know
not how, to know my mind, undertake to explain my words, which they
have heard of me, more intelligently than I who spoke them, telling
their catechumens that this is my meaning, which indeed I never thought
of. But if, while I am still alive, they dare thus to
misrepresent me, how much more will those who shall come after me dare
to do so!
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