239Homily III.

Chapter I.—The Morning of the Discussion.

Two days, therefore, having elapsed, and while the third was dawning, I Clement, and the rest of our companions, being roused about the second cock-crowing, in order to the discussion with Simon, found the lamp still alight, and Peter kneeling in prayer.  Therefore, having finished his supplication, and turning round, and seeing us in readiness to hear, he said:⁹⁵⁵⁹⁵⁵    [The first twenty-eight chapters of this homily have no exact parallel in the Recognitions; much of the matter is peculiar to this work.—R.]—