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Chapter
XXII.—Peter Worships One God.
When Simon said this, and was going to depart,
Peter said: “Listen to this one other remark, and then go
where you like.” Whereupon Simon turned back and remained,
and Peter said: “I know how you were then astonished when
you heard me say, ‘Whosoever says anything whatever against God
who created the world, I do not believe him.’ But listen
now to something additional, and greater than this. If God who
created the world has in reality such a character as the Scriptures
assign Him, and if somehow or other He is incomparably wicked, more
wicked1400
than either the
Scriptures were able to represent Him, or any other can even conceive
Him to be, nevertheless1401
| 1401 The Greek has
ὁμοίως, “in like
manner.” We have translated ὅμως. | I shall not give up
worshipping Him alone, and doing His will. For I wish you to know
and to be convinced, that he who has not affection for his own Creator,
can never have it towards another. And if he has it towards
another, he has it contrary to nature, and he is ignorant that he has
this passion for the unjust from the evil one. Nor will he be
able to retain even it stedfastly. And, indeed, if there is
another above the Creator (Demiurge), he will welcome me, since he is
good, all the more that I love my own Father; and he will not welcome
you, as he knows that you have abandoned your own natural
Creator: for I do not call Him Father, influenced by a greater
hope, and not caring for what is reasonable. Thus, even if you
find one who is superior to Him, he knows that you will one day abandon
him; and the more so that he has not been your father, since you have
abandoned Him who was really your Father.
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