prophets between Moses and Christ, "the true Prophet."
"In the _Circuits_, then, they adapted the whole to their own views,
representing Peter falsely in many ways, as that he was daily baptized
for the sake of purification, as these also do; and they say that he
likewise abstained from animal food and meat, as they themselves also
do." Now all the points here noted in the _Circuits_ can be traced in
our _Homilies_ and _Recognitions_, though toned down in different
degrees.

The witness of the Arianizing _Opus Imperfectum in Matthaeum_ (c. 400) is
in general similar. Its usual form of citation is "Peter in Clement"
(_apud Clementem_). This points to "Clement" as a brief title for the
Clementine _Periodoi_, a title actually found in a Syriac MS. of A.D. 411
which contains large parts of _Recognitions_ and _Homilies_, and twice
used by Rufinus, e.g. when he proposes to inscribe his version of the
_Recognitions_ "Rufinus _Clemens_." Rufinus in his preface to this
work--in which for the first time we meet the title
_Recognition(s)_--observes that there are two editions to which the name
applies, two collections of books differing in some points but in many
respects containing the same narrative. This he remarks in explanation of
the order of his version in some places, which he feels may strike his
friend Gaudentius as unusual, the inference being that the other edition
was the better-known one, although it lacked "the transformation of Simon"
(i.e. of Clement's father into Simon's likeness), which is common to the
close both of our _Recognitions_ and _Homilies_, and so probably belonged
to the _Circuits_. We may assume, too (e.g. on the basis of our Syriac
MS.), that the Greek edition of the _Recognition(s)_ actually used by
Rufinus was much nearer the text of the _Periodoi_ of which we have found
traces than we should imagine from its Latin form.

So far we have no sure trace of our _Homilies_ at all, apart from the
Syriac version. Even four centuries later, Photius, in referring to a
collection of books called both _Acts of Peter_ and the _Recognition of
Clement_, does not make clear whether he means _Homilies_ or
_Recognitions_ or either. "In all the copies which we have seen (and
they are not a few) after those different epistles (viz. 'Peter to
James' and 'Clement to James,' prefixed, the one in some MSS. the other
in others) and titles, we found without variation the same treatise,
beginning, I, Clement, &c." But i