Library Pseudo-Clement Clementine Homilies
Homily 3, Chapter 41: Status Quæstionis.
Then said Simon: You are manifestly avoiding the hearing of the charge from the Scriptures against your God.
Then Peter: You yourself appear to me to be doing this; for he who avoids the order of inquiry, does not wish a true investigation to be made. Hence I, who proceed in an orderly manner, and wish that the writer should first be considered, am manifestly desirous to walk in a straight path.
Then Simon: First confess that if the things written against the Creator are true, he is not above all, since, according to the Scriptures, he is subject to all evil; then afterwards we shall inquire as to the writer.
Then said Peter: That I may not seem to speak against your want of order through unwillingness to enter upon the investigation, I answer you. I say that if the things written against God are true, they do not show that God is wicked.
Then said Simon: How can you maintain that?
English translation in Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VIII (eds. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson; Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886). Public domain. Digital text via New Advent Church Fathers.