Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily II/Chapter 48

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Chapter XLVIII.—A Particular Case.

Then Peter answered:  “You speak well in your inquiry; for it will be for your safety.  Therefore listen:  Since there are many things that are spoken by the Scriptures against God, as time presses on account of the evening, ask with respect to any one matter that you please, and I will explain it, showing that it is false, not only because it is spoken against God, but because it is really false.”  Then I answered:  “I wish to learn how, when the Scriptures say that God is ignorant, you can show that He knows?”