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Chapter VI.—Simon’s Departure.
Then I said: “If our lord Peter did
not know that he himself alone can prevail against this power, he would
not have sent us before him with orders to get information secretly
concerning Simon, and to write to him.” Then, as evening
had come on, we took supper,1032
| 1032 Literally,
“partook of salt.” | and went to
sleep. But in the morning, one of Bernice’s friends came
and said that Simon had set sail for Sidon, and that he had left behind
him Appion Pleistonices,1033
| 1033 This epithet
means, “the conqueror of very many.” Suidas makes
Appion the son of Pleistonices. [Comp. Recognitions, x.
52. It is evident that the writer has in mind Apion, the opponent
of the Jews, against whom Josephus wrote his treatise. Compare
the statement of Homily V. 2. The entire discussion with Appion,
extending over Homilies IV.–VI. is peculiar to this narrative,
though much of the argument occurs in the discussion of Clement with
his father (Recognitions, x.). Appion and Annubion are
introduced in Recognitions, x. 52, but not as disputants.
The discussion here is constructed with much
skill.—R.] | —a man of
Alexandria, a grammarian by
profession, whom I knew as being a friend of my father; and a certain
astrologer, Annubion the Diospolitan, and Athenodorus the Athenian,
attached to the doctrine of Epicurus. And we, having learned
these things concerning Simon, in the morning wrote and despatched a
letter to Peter, and went to take a walk.
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