![]() But Peter alone saw his natural shape, and said to us: ‘Why do you in horror turn away from your own father?’ But we and our mother said: ‘It is Simon that we see before us, with the voice of our father.’ And Peter said: ‘You recognize only his voice, which is unaffected by magic but as my eyes also are unaffected by magic I can see his form as it really is, that he is not Simon, but your father Faustus.’ Then, looking to my father, he said: ‘It is not your own true form that is seen by them, but that of Simon, our deadliest foe, and a most impious man’.” Peter promises to restore Faustus eventually to his own shape, but evolves a plan through which in the meantime the metamorphosis, with its consequent confusion of the identities of Simon Magus and Faustus, can be used to confound the magician. And when we were fleeing from him, and abhorring him, our father was astonished at receiving such harsh and hostile treatment from us. But we were amazed when we looked at him, for we saw the form of Simon, but heard the voice of our father Faustus. our father came in and caught Peter talking to us of him. xii, “Faustus appears to his friends with the face of Simon.” The sons of Faustus (Clement's brothers) report the occurrence thus: “.
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