Library Pseudo-Clement Clementine Homilies

Homily 7, Chapter 10: Simon is Driven Away

And the people were afraid, and promised to do whatever he should command. Let none of you, then, said Peter, either hold conversation with these sorcerers, or have anything to do with them. And as soon as the people heard this concise command, they took up sticks, and pursued them till they had driven them wholly out of the town. And they who were sick and possessed with devils came and cast themselves at Peter's feet. And he seeing all this, and anxious to free them from their terror, said to them:—

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.