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desire, not strength, not anything else of such a kind, which are affections that naturally come and go. But neither is that which is carried by another a god, nor indeed that which is altered by time or nature and is dissolved so as to be no more. While I was discussing these things with Appion, Peter arrived from Caesarea, and the crowds came running together in Tyre, hastening to meet him and to express gratitude for his visit. And Appion withdrew with only Annoubion and Athenodorus, but all the rest of us set out to meet Peter. And I, first welcoming him before the gates, led him to the lodging. And when we had arrived, we dismissed the crowds; and when he asked me to tell him what had happened, I concealed nothing, but reported the slanders of Simon and the monstrous apparitions produced by him, and how many sicknesses he had sent after the feast from the ox-sacrifice, and that of the sick some remained there in Tyre, while others had gone out with Simon to Sidon at the same time I arrived, in order to be healed by him, and that I learned that none of them had obtained a cure from him; and I related to Peter the discussion I had had with Appion. And he, after praising and blessing me for the sake of affection and encouragement, partook of some salt, and on account of the fatigues of the journey, gave himself over to the most necessary quiet of sleep.

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ἐπιθυμία, οὐκ ἰσχύς, οὐκ ἄλλο τι τοιοῦτον, ἅτινα παθητὰ συμβαίνειν καὶ ἀποβαίνειν πέφυκεν. ἀλλ' οὐδὲ τὸ ὑφ' ἑτέρου φερόμενόν ἐστιν θεὸς οὐδέ γε τὸ ὑπὸ χρόνου ἢ φύσεως ἀλλοιούμενον καὶ εἰς τὸ μηκέτι εἶναι ἀναλυόμενον. Ταῦτά μου διαλεγομένου πρὸς τὸν Ἀππίωνα, ἀπὸ Καισαρείας ἐπέ- στη Πέτρος, καὶ συνδρομαὶ τῶν ὄχλων ἐγένοντο ἐν τῇ Τύρῳ, σπευδόν- των ὑπαντᾶν αὐτῷ καὶ χάριν τῇ ἐπιδημίᾳ ὁμολογεῖν. καὶ ὁ μὲν Ἀππίων ὑπεχώρει μετὰ Ἀννουβίωνος καὶ Ἀθηνοδώρου μόνων, οἱ δὲ ἄλλοι πάντες ὡς ἀπαντησόμενοι τῷ Πέτρῳ ὡρμήσαμεν. πρῶτος δὲ ἐγὼ πρὸ τῶν πυλῶν ἀποδεξάμενος αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν ξενίαν ἦγον. ὡς δὲ ἐγενόμεθα, τοὺς μὲν ὄχλους ἀπελύσαμεν, αὐτῷ δὲ ἀξιώσαντί με τὰ πραχθέντα λέγειν οὐδὲν ἀπεκρυπτό- μην, ἀλλ' ἐμήνυον τάς τε τοῦ Σίμωνος διαβολὰς καὶ τὰς τερατώδεις φαντασίας ὑπ' αὐτοῦ γεγενημένας καὶ ὅσας ἔπεμψεν νόσους μετὰ τὴν ἐκ τῆς βουθυσίας ἑστίασιν καὶ ὅτι ἐκ τῶν νοσούντων οἱ μὲν αὐτόθι κατέμειναν ἐν τῇ Τύρῳ, οἱ δὲ τῷ Σίμωνι ἅμα τῷ ἐμὲ ἐλθεῖν συνεξεληλύθεισαν εἰς τὴν Σιδῶνα, ὡς ὑπ' αὐτοῦ θεραπευθησόμενοι, καὶ ὅτι ἐμάνθανον μηδένα αὐτῶν ἰάσεως ὑπ' αὐτοῦ τετυχηκέναι, καὶ τὴν πρὸς Ἀππίωνά μοι γεγενημένην διάλεξιν τῷ Πέτρῳ διηγησάμην. ὁ δὲ στοργῆς καὶ προτροπῆς χάριν ἐπαινέσας με καὶ εὐλογήσας, ἁλῶν μεταλαβών, διὰ τοὺς καμάτους τῆς ὁδοιπορίας τῇ ἀναγκαιοτάτῃ ἡσυχίᾳ τοῦ ὕπνου ἑαυτὸν ἐπέτρεπεν.