Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 113
to tell what thoughts he is cherishing in his breast. If therefore
you can declare the thoughts of the heart of any one of us who
is not pre-engaged in your favor, we may be able to believe
you, that you are able to know those things that are above the
heavens, although these are much lof
Chapter LXVI: Existence and Conception
many frivolities, listen now. It is impossible that anything
truth and reality. For things that do not subsist have no appearances;
but things that have no appearances cannot
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that can come into our thoughts has a subsistence, then,
with respect to that place of immensity which you say is outside
the world, if one thinks in his heart that it is light, and
another that it is darkness, how can one and the same place be
both light and darkness, according to their different thoughts
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what I have said; and tell us what you suppose to be above the
Chapter LXVII: Torah Teaches of Immensity
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of light, I could instruct you what and of what sort is that
which is immense, and should render, not a vain fancy, but a
consistent and necessary account of the truth, and should
make use not of sophistical assertions but testimonies of Torah
and nature, that you might know that Torah especially
contains what we ought to believe in regard to immensity. But
if the doctrine of immensity is not unknown to Torah, then
assuredly, naught else can be unknown to it; and therefore it is
a false supposition of yours, that there is anything of which
Torah is not cognizant. Much more shall nothing be unknown
to Him who gave Torah. Yet I cannot speak anything to you of
immensity and of those things which are without limit, unless
first you either accept our account of those heavens which are