Book V - Snyder Bible

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-slayers, if they know him;
but good, and sober, and merciful persons, if they do not know
him, in consequence of their having no information concerning
him, he does not save! Great and good truly is he whom
you proclaim, who is not so much the savior of the evil, as he is
very difficult for man to know him, as long as he is in the flesh;
for blacker than all darkness, and heavier than all clay, is this
body with which the spirit is sur
icult;
but He who is truly Elohim seeks easier things. Let him
then, since he is so good, leave us with our Father and Creator;
and when once we depart from the body, and leave that darkness
that you speak of, we shall more easily know Him; and
then the spirit shall better understand that Elohim is its Creator,
and shall remain with Him, and shall no more be harassed
with diverse imaginations; nor shall wish to betake itself to
another power, which is known to none but Simon only, and
which is of such goodness that no one can come to it, unless he
be first guilty of impiety towards his own father! I know not
how this power can be called either good or just, which no one
can please except by acting impiously towards him by whom
Chapter LIX: The Creator Our Father
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stranger, it is at all events much more obedient to remain with
our own father, even if he be poor. But if you do not think it
disobedient to leave our father, and flee to another, as being
better than he; and you do not believe that our Creator will
take this amiss; much more the good Elohim will not be angry,
because, when we were strangers to him, we have not fled to
him, but have remained with our own Creator. Yea, I think he
will rather commend us the more for this, that we have kept