Philip Schaff,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, Pseudo-Clementine Literature…
(1885)
“ However, I submitted this very plan to a certain companion who was a philosopher; and he counselled me not to venture upon it, and that on many accounts. “For if,” said he, “the soul shall not listen to the magician, you will live with an evil conscience, as having acted against the laws which forbid the doing of these things. ”
