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Chapter
XIII.—The Flight of Simon.
While Peter was thus talking, there entered one of
those who had gone before to Antioch, and who, coming back from
Antioch, said to Peter: “I wish you to know, my lord, that
Simon, by doing many miracles publicly in Antioch, and calling you a
magician and a juggler and a murderer,1522
| 1522 Supplied from
Epitome. The passage in Epitome Second renders it
likely that the sentence ran: “But Simon, while doing many
miracles publicly in Antioch, did nothing else by his discourses than
excite hatred amongst them against you, and by calling you,”
etc. |
has worked them up to such hatred against you, that every man is eager
to taste your very flesh if you should sojourn there.1523
| 1523 This passage
is amended principally according to Wieseler and the
Recognitions. | Wherefore we who went before, along
with our brethren who were in pretence attached by you to Simon, seeing
the city raging wildly against you, met secretly and considered what we
ought to do. And assuredly, while we were in great perplexity,
Cornelius the centurion arrived, who had been sent by the emperor to
the governor of the province. He was the person whom our Lord
cured when he was possessed of a demon in Cæsarea. This man
we sent for secretly; and informing him of the cause of our
despondency, we begged his help. He promised most readily that he
would alarm Simon, and make him take to flight, if we should assist him
in his effort. And when we all promised that we should readily do
everything, he said, ‘I shall spread abroad the news1524
| 1524 An emendation of
Wieseler’s. | through many friends that I have secretly
come to apprehend him; and I shall pretend that I am in search of him,
because the emperor, having put to death many magicians, and having
received information in regard to him, has sent me to search him out,
that he may punish him as he punished the magicians before him; while
those of your party who are with him must report to him, as if they had
heard it from a secret source, that I have been sent to apprehend
him. And perchance when he hears it from them, he will be alarmed
and take to flight.’ When, therefore, we had intended to do
something else, nevertheless the affair turned out in the following
way. For when he heard the news from many strangers who gratified
him greatly by secretly informing him, and also from our brethren who
pretended to be attached to him, and took it as the opinion of his own
followers, he resolved on retiring. And hastening away from
Antioch, he has come here with Athenodorus, as we have heard.
Wherefore we advise you not yet to enter that city, until we ascertain
whether they can forget in his absence the accusations which he brought
against you.”
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