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children. And Peter said: When you see him, be quiet until we leave the island. And she said: I will do so. Therefore, taking her by the hand, Peter led her to the ship. But I, seeing him leading a woman by the hand, laughed and approaching, out of respect for him, I tried to lead her by the hand instead of him. And as soon as I touched her hand, she cried out loudly like a mother and embracing me tightly, she kissed me as her son. But I, ignorant of the whole matter, pushed her away as if she were mad, and being ashamed before Peter, I was bitter. But Peter said: Stop! what are you doing, my child Clement, pushing away the one who bore you? And I, hearing this, became tearful, and falling upon my mother who had fallen down, I kissed her. For as soon as this was said to me, I somehow dimly recalled her appearance. Therefore many crowds ran together to see the beggar woman, saying to one another that her son, a man of consequence, had recognized her. Therefore, when we wished to leave the island immediately with my mother, my mother said: My longed-for child, it is right to bid farewell to the woman who received me, who, being poor and entirely paralyzed, is cast down in her house. And Peter, hearing this, marveled, as did all the surrounding crowds, at the woman's good sentiment. And immediately Peter ordered some men to go and bring the woman on a bed. And when the bed was brought and set down, Peter said in the hearing of all the crowds: If I am a herald of truth, for the faith of those present, so that they may know that there is one God who made the world, let her rise up healthy at once. And as soon as Peter said these things, the woman rose up healed and fell down before Peter, and kissing her usual friend, she asked what this was. And she briefly recounted to her the whole matter of the recognition, and those who heard were astonished. Then my mother also, seeing that her hostess had been healed, begged that she herself might also receive healing. And he, laying his hand on her, healed her also. And then Peter, after speaking about God and the worship belonging to Him, added at the end: If anyone wishes to learn these things accurately, let him come to Antioch, where I have decided to wait for several days, and learn the things pertaining to his own salvation. For you know how to leave your native lands for the sake of commerce or military service and to go to distant places, but for the sake of eternal salvation you are not willing to travel even a three days' journey? Therefore, after Peter's discourse, I, in the presence of the whole crowd, gave a thousand drachmas to the healed woman for her sustenance, entrusting her to a certain good man, a first citizen of the city, who was by nature disposed to do this with joy. And having also distributed money to many others, and after thanking those who had once comforted my mother, I sailed across to Antaradus with my mother and Peter and the rest of the companions, and thus we set out for our lodging. And when we arrived and had partaken of food and given thanks as was our custom, as it was still early, I said to Peter: A work of philanthropy, my lord Peter, my mother did, in remembering her hostess, the wo-

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τέκνα. καὶ ὁ Πέτρος ἔφη· Ὅταν αὐτὸν ἴδῃς, ἡσύχασον μέχρις ἂν τῆς νήσου ἐκβῶμεν. ἡ δὲ ἔφη· Oὕτως ποιήσω. λαβόμενος οὖν τῆς χειρὸς αὐτῆς ὁ Πέτρος ἦγεν ἐπὶ τὸ πλοῖον. ἐγὼ δὲ ἰδὼν αὐτὸν χειραγωγοῦντα γυναῖκα ἐγέλασα καὶ προσελθὼν εἰς τιμὴν αὐτοῦ ἀντ' αὐτοῦ χειραγωγεῖν αὐτὴν ἐπειρώμην. καὶ ἅμα τῷ ἅψασθαί με τῆς χειρὸς αὐτῆς ὀλολύξασα ὡς μήτηρ μέγα καὶ περιπλακεῖσα σφόδρα κατεφίλει με τὸν αὐτῆς υἱόν. ἐγὼ δὲ ἀγνοῶν ὅλον τὸ πρᾶγμα ὡς μαινομένην ἀπεσειόμην, αἰδούμενος δὲ καὶ τὸν Πέτρον ἐπικραινόμην. ὁ δὲ Πέτρος ἔφη· Ἔα· τί ποιεῖς, τέκ- νον Κλήμης, ἀποσειόμενος τὴν σὴν οὕτως τεκοῦσαν; ἐγὼ δὲ τοῦτο ἀκού- σας περίδακρυς γενόμενος καὶ καταπεσούσῃ τῇ τεκούσῃ προσπεσὼν κατεφί- λουν. καὶ γὰρ ἅμα τῷ ·ηθῆναί μοι τοῦτο ἀμαυρῶς πως τὸ εἶδος ἀνεκαλού- μην. πολλοὶ μὲν οὖν ὄχλοι συνέτρεχον ἱστορῆσαι τὴν προσαιτήτριαν γυναῖκα, λέγοντες ἀλλήλοις ὅτι αὐτὴν ἐπέγνω ὁ υἱός, ἀνὴρ ἀξιόλογος. βουλομένοις οὖν ἡμῖν ἐξαυτῆς σὺν τῇ μητρὶ τῆς νήσου ἐκβαίνειν ἡ μήτηρ ἔφη· Τέκνον μοι ποθεινόν, εὔλογόν ἐστιν ἀποτάξασθαι τῇ ὑποδεξαμένῃ με γυναικί, ἥτις πενιχρὰ οὖσα καὶ ὅλη παρειμένη ἐπὶ τῆς οἰκίας ἔρριπται. ὁ δὲ Πέτρος ἀκούσας ἐθαύμασεν καὶ πάντες οἱ περιεστῶτες ὄχλοι τῆς γυναικὸς τὸ ἀγαθὸν φρόνημα. καὶ εὐθέως ἐκέλευσεν ὁ Πέτρος τισὶν πορευθῆναι καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα ἐπὶ κλίνης κομίσαι. καὶ ὁμῶς ἐνεχθείσης καὶ τεθείσης τῆς κλίνης, πάντων τῶν ὄχλων ἀκουόντων ἔφη ὁ Πέτρος· Eἰ ἀλη- θείας κῆρυξ ἐγὼ τυγχάνω, εἰς τὴν τῶν παρεστώτων πίστιν, ἵνα γνῶσιν ὅτι εἷς ἐστιν θεὸς ὁ τὸν κόσμον ποιήσας, ἐξαυτῆς ἐγερθήτω ὑγιής. καὶ ἅμα τῷ εἰπεῖν Πέτρον ταῦτα ἡ γυνὴ ἠγέρθη ὑγιασθεῖσα καὶ τῷ Πέτρῳ προσέπεσεν καὶ τὴν συνήθη φίλην καταφιλήσασα ἐπυνθάνετο τί εἴη τοῦτο. ἡ δὲ ὅλον αὐτῇ τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦ ἀναγνωρισμοῦ συντόμως διηγή σατο καὶ οἱ ἀκούσαντες κατεπλάγησαν. τότε καὶ ἡ μήτηρ τὴν ξενοδόχον θεραπευθεῖσαν ἱστορήσασα παρεκάλει καὶ αὐτὴ ἰάσεως τυχεῖν. ὁ δὲ ἐπιθεὶς τὴν χεῖρα καὶ αὐτὴν ἐθεράπευσεν. καὶ εἶθ' οὕτως ὁ Πέ- τρος περὶ θεοῦ καὶ τῆς αὐτῷ διαφερούσης θρησκείας ὁμιλήσας, προσθεὶς ἐπὶ τέλει ὅτι· Eἴ τις βούλεται ταῦτα ἀκριβῶς μαθεῖν, εἰς Ἀντιόχειαν, ὅπου πλειόνων ἡμερῶν περιμένειν ἔκρινα, ἐλθὼν τὰ πρὸς τὴν αὑτοῦ σωτηρίαν μανθανέτω. οὐ γὰρ δὴ ἐμπορίας ἕνεκα ἢ στρατείας πατρίδας καταλιμπάνειν οἴδατε καὶ εἰς μακροὺς ἀπέρχεσθαι τόπους, διὰ δὲ αἰώνιον σωτηρίαν μηδὲ τριῶν ἡμερῶν ὁδὸν πορευθῆναι θέλετε; μετὰ μὲν οὖν τὴν προσομιλίαν Πέτρου ἐγὼ τῇ ὑγιασθείσῃ γυναικὶ ἐπὶ παντὸς τοῦ ὄχλου χιλίας δραχμὰς εἰς τροφὰς ἐδωρησάμην, παραθέμενος αὐτὴν ἀγα- θῷ τινι ἀνδρί, πρώτῳ τῆς πόλεως ὄντι, φύσει μετὰ χαρᾶς τοῦτο ποιεῖν προῃρημένῳ. ἔτι δὲ καὶ ἄλλοις πολλοῖς ἀργύρια διανείμας, ταῖς ποτε τὴν μητέρα παραμυθησαμέναις εὐχαριστήσας διέπλευσα εἰς Ἀντάραδον ἅμα τῇ μητρὶ καὶ Πέτρῳ καὶ τοῖς λοιποῖς ἑταίροις, καὶ οὕτως εἰς τὴν ξενίαν ὡρμήσαμεν. Γενομένων δὲ ἡμῶν καὶ τροφῆς μεταλαβόντων καὶ συνήθως εὐχαριστη- σάντων, ἔτι ὥρας οὔσης ἔφην ἐγὼ τῷ Πέτρῳ· Φιλανθρωπίας ἔργον, κύριέ μου Πέτρε, ἡ ἐμὴ ἐποίησεν μήτηρ, τῆς ξενοδόχου ὑπομνησθεῖσα γυ-