Book V - Snyder Bible

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bounded by a certain limit, or else propound your own account
of them. But if you cannot understand concerning those
which are comprehended within fixed boundaries, much more
can you neither know nor learn anything concerning those
Chapter LXVIII: The Visible and the Invisible Heaven
elieve
simply that Elohim is, and that that heaven which we see
so; but it is proper to confess one Elohim who truly is; but that
there are heavens, which were made by Him, as also Torah
says, of which one is the higher, in which also is contained the
visible firmament; and that that higher heaven is perpetual
and eternal, with those who dwell in it; but that this visible
heaven is to be dissolved and to pass away at the end of the
age, in order that that heaven which is older and higher may
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appear to those who believe them; but to him who seeks for
reasons of these things, it is impossible that they can be produced
from Torah, and especially concerning the immensity of
Chapter LXIX: Faith and Reason
these things are
only to be received by faith, but also that they are to be asserted
by reason. For indeed it is not safe to commit these
things to bare faith without reason, since assuredly truth cannot
be without reason. And therefore he who has received
these things fortified by reason, can never lose them; whereas
he who receives them without proofs, by an assent to a simple
statement of them, can neither keep them safely, nor is certain
if they are true; because he who easily believes, also easily
yields. But he who has sought reason for those things which
he has believed and received, as though bound by chains of
reason itself, can never be torn away or separated from those