# Ὁμίλαι 15.3

Clemens Romanus, Ὁμίλαι, Chapter 15. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/clemens-romanus/text-4/15.3

Καὶ ὁ πατήρ· πολλὰ φαίνῃ μοι εὔλογα λέγων. καὶ ὁ Πέτρος ἔφη· τί οὖν ἐστιν τὸ κρατοῦν σε εἰς τὴν ἡμετέραν πίστιν ἐλθεῖν, λέγε, ἵνα εἰς αὐτὸ λέγειν ᾀρξώμεθα. πολλὰ γάρ ἐστιν τὰ κρατοῦντα· τοὺς μὲν πεπεισμένους ἀσχολίαι ἀγορασμῶν , πράξεων, γεωργιῶν, φροντίδων καὶ ὅσα τοιαῦτα· ἀπιστοῦντας δὲ, ἀφ᾽ ὧν εἶ καὶ σὺ, ὑπολήψεις τοῦ νομίζειν, ἢ θεοὺς τοὺς οὐκ ὄντας εἶναι, ἢ τὸ γενέσει τὰ πάντα ὑποκεῖσθαι, ἢ αὐτοματισμῷ, ἢ τὰς ψυχὰς θνητὰς, ἢ καὶ τὸν ἡμέτερον λόγον ψευδῆ ὡς οὐκ οὔσης προνοίας.

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Clemens Romanus, Ὁμίλαι, ed. Albert Schwegler. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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