About the false Apostles. But when we had divided all the world into
twelve parts, and had gone out among the Gentiles to preach the Word,
then Satan wrought and excited the Nation ; and they sent after us false
Apostles to destroy the Word ; and they sent out from the Nation one
whose name was Cle[o]bius, and he adhered to Simon, but also to Theuda,
f. 68 b and to Judah the Galilean, as well as to others after them. But Simon's
people adhered to me, Peter, and came to destroy the Word. When he was
in Rome, he greatly troubled the Church, and perverted many, and showed
himself as if he were ready xto ascend to Heaven1 ; and captivated the
Gentiles, exciting them by the power of the energy of his sorceries. One
day I went and saw him in the market deceiving the people ; we had a
dispute with each other about the Resurrection and about the life of the
dead ; and when he was conquered, he pretended to fly in the air, and
began to give a sign to his gang to raise him. And when he had risen to a
great distance, then I stood and said to him, " By the power of the name