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to lie down with him. But I do not know if I will be persuaded to go away with him. But when she was hesitant to go away, Annubion urged her, saying: "Be persuaded by me and Peter and by the voice itself that it is <Faustus>, your husband, whom I love no less than you. And I myself will go with him." When Annubion said these things, the mother promised to go with him. But Peter <said: "Most fit>tingly does God arrange our affairs. For we have with us Annubion< the astrolo>ger. For he, when we visit Antioch, concerning the rest of the family, as a genuine friend—

And indeed, when my father had set out by night with those whom Peter had commanded, along with Annubion, for nearby Antioch, at dawn on the next day, before Peter came forth to discourse, Appion and Athenodorus returned to Laodicea, having sent Simon ahead, seeking my father. But <Peter>, having learned of it, commanded them to enter. And when they had entered and sat down and said, "Where is Faustus?", Peter answered: "We do not know; for after he came to you that evening, he no longer appeared to his own people. And yesterday at dawn Simon also sought him, and since we made no answer to him, I do not know what occurred to him, but calling himself Faustus and not being believed, weeping and beating himself, he threatened to kill himself and rushed toward the sea." Hearing these things, both Appion and those with him cried out and beat themselves, saying: "Why did you not receive him?" And just as Athenodorus was about to say to me, "It was Faustus, your father," Appion anticipated him and said: "We learned from someone that Simon, having found him, set out, since the real Faustus had entreated him, because he did not want to see his own sons become Jews. And we, having heard these things, came for this reason, seeking him. But since he is not here, it seems that the one who told us spoke the truth. So, we have spoken to you as having heard from him." But I, Clement, perceiving Peter's purpose, that he wished to sow suspicion in them that he was about to seek the old man among them, so that they might be afraid and flee, I went along with his wish and said to Appion, "Listen, my dearest Appion: We hastened to give what seemed good to us, as to a father; but if he himself was not willing to receive it, but on the contrary, abhorring us, he fled, (I will say something rather harsh) we do not care for him either." When I had said these things, as if offended at my cruelty, they went away, and (as we learned the next day) of us ....... in the tracks of Simon, they set out for Judaea. However, after ten days had passed, <someone came> from Antioch from my father, reporting to us how my father, <standing publicly and denouncing> his own form and blessing Peter, moved the whole city of the Antiochians to longing, and from this, they reported that all desired to see him. And some were even angry at him as Simon on account of his excessive affection for Peter and wished to lay hands on Faustus as if he were Simon; therefore, fearing that he might be killed, he sent immediately to ask Peter to come, so that he might find him alive and, to the city flourishing with longing for him

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συγκατακλιθήσεσθαι. οὐκ οἶδα δέ, εἰ καὶ συναπελθεῖν αὐτῷ πεισθήσομαι. ὀκνοῦσαν δὲ αὐτὴν ἀπελθεῖν ὁ Ἀννουβίων προέτρεψεν αὐτὴν εἰπών· Πεί- σθητι ἐμοί τε καὶ Πέτρῳ καὶ αὐτῇ δὲ τῇ φωνῇ ὅτι <Φαῦστός> ἐστιν ὁ σὸς σύμβιος, ὃν οὐκ ἔλαττόν σου ἀγαπῶ. καὶ αὐτὸς αὐτῷ συμ<πορεύσομαι>. ταῦτα τοῦ Ἀννουβίωνος εἰπόντος ἡ μήτηρ συνελθεῖν ὑπέσχετο. ὁ δὲ Πέτρος <ἔφη· Ἁρμο>διώτατα ὁ θεὸς τὰ πράγματα ἡμῶν οἰκονομεῖ. ἔχομεν γὰρ μεθ' ἡμῶν Ἀννουβίων<α τὸν ἀστρολ>όγον. οὗτος γὰρ ἡμῖν ἐπιδημήσασι τῇ Ἀντιοχείᾳ περὶ γενέσεως τοῦ λοιποῦ ὡς φίλος γνη-

Καὶ δὴ τοῦ πατρὸς ὑπὸ νύκτα μεθ' ὧν ἐκέλευσε Πέτρος σὺν τῷ Ἀννουβίωνι ὁρμήσαντος ἐπὶ τὴν πλησίον Ἀντιόχειαν, ὄρθρου τῆς ἄλλης ἡμέ- ρας πρὶν προελθεῖν Πέτρον ἐπὶ τῷ διαλέγεσθαι ἐπανῆλθον εἰς τὴν Λαοδίκειαν τὸν Σίμωνα προπέμψαντες Ἀππίων καὶ Ἀθηνόδωρος ἐπιζητοῦντες τὸν πα- τέρα. ὁ δὲ <Πέτρος> μαθὼν ἐκέλευσεν αὐτοὺς εἰσέρχεσθαι. εἰσβάντων δὲ καὶ καθεσθέντων καί· Ποῦ Φαῦστος; εἰπόντων, ἀπεκρίνατο Πέτρος· Oὐκ ἴσμεν· αὐτῆς γὰρ ἑσπέρας πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐλθὼν οὐκέτι τοῖς οἰκείοις ἐφάνη, χθὲς δὲ ὄρθρου καὶ Σίμων αὐτὸν ἐζήτησε, καὶ ἐπεὶ μηδὲν ἀπεκρινάμεθα πρὸς αὐτόν, οὐκ οἶδα τί δόξαν αὐτῷ, Φαῦστον ἑαυτὸν εἰπὼν μὴ πιστευ- θεὶς δακρύων καὶ κοπτόμενος ἀποκτέννειν ἑαυτὸν ἀπειλήσας ὡς ἐπὶ θάλασ- σαν ὥρμησε. ταῦτα ἀκούοντες ὅ τε Ἀππίων καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ ἐπολολύξαντες ἐκόψαντο λέγοντες· ∆ιὰ τί οὐ παρεδέξασθε αὐτόν; καὶ ἅμα τῷ βούλεσθαι τὸν Ἀθηνόδωρον εἰπεῖν μοι· Φαῦστος ἦν, ὁ πατήρ σου, ὁ Ἀππίων ὑποφθά- σας αὐτὸν εἶπεν· Ἐμάθομεν παρά τινος ὅτι εὑρὼν αὐτὸν ὁ Σίμων ἐξώρμησε, τὰ ἀληθῆ αὐτοῦ Φαύστου παρακαλέσαντος αὐτόν, ὅτι μὴ ἤθελεν ὁρᾶν τοὺς αὑτοῦ υἱοὺς Ἰουδαίους γεγενημένους. ἡμεῖς δὲ ταῦτα ἀκούσαντες τούτου ἕνεκεν ἤλθομεν ζητοῦντες αὐτόν. ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἐνταῦθα οὐκ ἔστι, φαίνεται ἀληθεύσας ὁ εἰπὼν ἡμῖν. ὡς οὖν παρ' αὐτοῦ ἀκούσαντες εἰρήκαμεν ὑμῖν. ἐγὼ δὲ Κλήμης συννοήσας τὴν τοῦ Πέτρου προαίρεσιν ὅτι ὑπόνοιαν αὐτοῖς ἐνσπεῖραι θέλει ὡς τὸν γέροντα ζητεῖν μέλλων παρ' αὐτοῖς, ἵνα φοβηθέντες φύγωσι, συνέδραμον αὐτοῦ τῷ βουλήματι καὶ πρὸς τὸν Ἀπ- πίωνα· Ἄκουσον, ἔφην, φίλτατέ μοι Ἀππίων· ἡμεῖς τὰ νομισθέντα ἡμῖν καλὰ ὡς πατρὶ δοῦναι ἐσπεύσαμεν· εἰ δὲ αὐτὸς οὐκ ἐβουλήθη λαβεῖν, ἀλλὰ τοὐναντίον βδελυξάμενος ἡμᾶς ἔφυγε, (τραχύτερόν τι ἐρῶ) οὐδὲ ἡμεῖς αὐτοῦ φροντίζομεν. ἐμοῦ ταῦτα εἰπόντος, ὡς ἐπ' ὠμότητι δυσχεράναν- τες ἀπῄεσαν καί (ὡς ἐμάθομεν τῆς ἄλλης) ἡμῶν ....... κατ' ἴχνη Σίμωνος ἐπὶ τὴν Ἰουδαίαν ὥρμησαν. Πλὴν ἡμερῶν δέκα διελθουσῶν <ἦλθέ τις> ἐκ τῆς Ἀντιοχείας παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς ἀγγέλλων ἡμῖν πῶς ὁ πατὴρ δημο<σίᾳ στὰς τῆς> αὐτοῦ μορφῆς κατηγορῶν, Πέτρον εὐλογῶν τὴν πᾶσαν Ἀντιοχέων πόλιν εἰς πόθον μετέθηκεν, καὶ ἐκ τούτου πάντες ἐπιθυμεῖν αὐτὸν ἰδεῖν ἀπήγγελλον. ἐνίους δὲ καὶ χαλεπαίνοντας αὐτῷ ὡς Σίμωνι διὰ τὴν πρὸς Πέτρον ὑπερβάλλουσαν στοργὴν καὶ χεῖρας θέλειν ἐπιβαλεῖν τῷ Φαύστῳ ὡς Σίμωνι· διὸ μήπως ἀναιρεθῇ δεδοικότα, ἐξαυτῆς ἐλθεῖν πέμψαντα ἀξιοῦν τὸν Πέτρον, ὅπως αὐτὸν ζῶντα ἐπικαταλάβῃ καὶ τῇ πόλει ἀκμαζούσῃ πόθῳ τῷ πρὸς αὐτὸν

σιώτερον διαλεχθήσεται.