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| Peter is Willing to Gratify Sophonias.
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Homily XX.
Chapter I.—Peter is Willing to
Gratify Sophonias.
In the night-time Peter
rose up and wakened us, and then sat down in his usual way, and
said: “Ask me questions about anything you
like.”1478
| 1478 [Chaps.
1–10 are also peculiar to the Homilies, though there are
incidental resemblances to passages in the Recognitions,
particularly in the presentation of free-will.—R.] | And
Sophonias was the first to begin to speak to him: “Will you
explain to us who are eager to learn what is the real truth in regard
to evil?” And Peter said: “I have already
explained it in the course of my discussion with Simon; but because I
stated the truth in regard to it in combination with other topics, it
was not altogether clearly put; for many topics that seem to be of
equal weight with the truth afford some kind of knowledge of the truth
to the masses. So that, if now I state what I formerly stated to
Simon along with many topics, do not imagine that you are
not1479
| 1479 “Not”
is supplied by conjecture. | honoured with
honour equal to his.” And Sophonias said: “You
are right; for if you now separate it for us from many of the topics
that were then discussed, you will make the truth more
evident.”
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