Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 103
which is beyond those five which we all enjoy, you cannot as-
senses, that power which is more excellent than all cannot add
sixth sense, namely that of foreknowledge: for those five
senses are capable of knowledge, but the sixth is that of foreknowledge:
and this the prophets possessed. How, then, can
you know an Elohim who is unknown to all, who do not know
the prophet
and more excellent than all, ay, even than that Elohim who
made the world, neither any of the malachim has known, nor
of the demons, nor of the Jews, nay, nor any creature which
subsists by means of Elohim the creator. How, then, could that
e creator himself did
not know, since neither did Torah itself know it, that it might
Chapter LII: Reductio ad Absurdum
more from Torah than Torah was able to know or to teach;
and how you say that you adduce proofs from Torah of those
things which you are pleased to assert, when you declare that
neither Torah, nor He who gave Torahthat is, the Creator of
the world-knows those things of which you speak! But at this
also I wonderhow you, who alone know these things
should be standing here now with us all, circumscribed by the
lofty matters are under discussion?
enraged, Simon, for we are doing no more than keeping our
promise: for we are neither shutting our ears, as you said, nor
did we take to flight as soon as we heard you propound your
unutterable things; but we have not even stirred from the
place. For indeed you do not even propound things that have
any resemblance to truth, which might to a certain extent