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Chapter XXXVIII.—Simon’s Challenge.
When Peter had thus spoken, Simon, at the outside
of the crowd, cried aloud:978
| 978 [The reply
of Simon in the Recognitions is quite different, though the
substance of this attack is given in the progress of this discussion;
see Recognitions, ii. 39.—R.] |
“Why would you lie, and deceive the unlearned multitude standing
around you, persuading them that it is unlawful to think that there are
gods, and to call them so, when the books that are current among the
Jews say that there are many gods?979
| 979 [The Ebionitic
tendency appears in this representation of Simon, as opposing the
monotheism of the Old Testament. Comp. Recognitions, ii.
38.—R.] | And
now I wish, in the presence of all, to discuss with you from these
books on the necessity of thinking that there are gods; first showing
respecting him whom you call God, that he is not the supreme and
omnipotent Being, inasmuch as he is without foreknowledge,
imperfect, needy, not good, and underlying many and innumerable
grievous passions. Wherefore, when this has been shown from the
Scriptures, as I say, it follows that there is another, not written of,
foreknowing, perfect, without want, good, removed from all grievous
passions. But he whom you call the Creator is subject to the
opposite evils.
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