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Homily VII.

[1] [The historical details of this Homily also have no parallel in the Recognitions.—R.]

[2] [With this discourse respecting Simon, compare Recognitions, ii. 6–18. But the statements respecting Simon’s power and the design of it are much stronger than here.—R.]

[3] We have adopted Wieseler’s emendation. The text may be translated thus: “And after that, among his other wondrous deeds, all the rest (who had not been baptized) sat down,” etc.

[4] [Compare with this chapter the recently discovered “Teaching” and Apostolic Constitutions, book vii. chap. 1, in vol. vii. pp. 377, 465.—R.]

[5] [Comp. Recognitions, iv. 36. The language recalls Acts xv. 20 and 1 Cor. x. 21.—R.]

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