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Chapter XXII.—Appion and Athenodorus Return to
Simon.
When Appion and those who were with him heard this, they
howled and lamented, saying: “Why did you not receive
him?” And when at the same time Athenodorus wished to say
to me, “It was Faustus, your father;” Appion anticipated
him, and said, “We learned from some one that Simon, finding him,
urged him to go along with him,1544
| 1544 This is supplied
purely by conjecture. |
Faustus himself entreating him, since he did not wish to see his sons
after they had become Jews. And hearing this, we came, for his
own sake, in search of him. But since he is not here, it is plain
that he spake the truth who gave us the information which we, hearing
it from him, have given to you.” And I Clement, perceiving
the design of Peter, that he wished to beget a suspicion in them that
he intended to look out among them for the old man, that they might be
afraid and take to flight, assisted in his design, and said to
Appion: “Listen to me, my dearest Appion. We were
eager to give to him, as being our father, what we ourselves deemed to
be good. But if he himself did not wish to receive it, but, on
the contrary, fled from us in horror, I shall make a somewhat harsh
remark, ‘Nor do we care for him.’” And when I
said this, they went away, as if irritated by my savageness; and, as we
learn next day, they went to Judæa in the track of
Simon.
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