Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 111
ing, for the sake of offerings and prayers. But I was accustomed
also to admire this Caesarea, hearing of it from others,
and to long to see it; and I seemed to myself to see it, although
I had never been in it; and I thought of it what was suitable to
be thought of a great city, its gates, walls, baths, streets, lanes,
markets, and the like, in accordance with what I had seen in
other cities; and to such an extent was I delighted with the intentness
of such inspection, that, as you said, neither saw one
who was present and standing by me, nor knew where myself
rt, when I did not perceive, through the
occupation of my mind, that I had caught a very large fish
which was attached to the hook, and that although it was
dragging the hook-line from my hand, my brother Andrew,
who was sitting by me, seeing me in a reverie and almost
ready to fall, thrusting his elbow into my side as if he would
large fish you have caught? Are you out of your senses, that
you are thus in a stupor of astonishment? Tell me, what is the
he had withdrawn me from the delight of those things which I
was contemplating; then I answered that I was not suffering
from any malady, but that I was mentally gazing on the beloved
Yahrushalayim, and at the same time on Caesarea; and
that, while I was indeed with him in the body, in my mind I
was wholly carried away thither. But he, I know not whence
inspired, ut
For those who are beginning to be possessed with a demon, or
to be disturbed in their minds, begin in this way. They are first
carried away by fancies to some pleasant and delightful things,
then they are poured out in vain and fond motions towards
things which have no existence. Now this come of a certain