Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 119
But you are detected. For you are driven into a corner, and,
contrary to your expectation, you are made notorious, not only
as being ignorant of the truth, but as being unwilling to hear
it from those who know it. For if you had been willing to hear,
that saying would have been exemplified in you, of Him who
While Kefa spoke these words and others to the same ef-
speeches, Kefa; I claim from you what you promised yesterday.
You then said that you could show that Torah teaches
concerning the immensity of the eternal light, and that there
are only two heavens, and these created, and that the higher is
the abode of that light, in which the ineffable Father dwells
alone for ever; but that after the pattern of that heaven is
made this visible heaven, which you asserted is to pass away.
You said, therefore, that the Father of all is one, because there
cannot be two infinites; else neither of them would be infinite,
because in that in which the one subsists, he makes a limit of
the subsistence of the other. Since then you not only promised
this, but are able to show it from Torah, leave off other mat-
speak of these things only on your account, who come only for
the purpose of contradicting, you should never hear a single
discourse from me; but seeing it is necessary that the husbandman,
wishing to sow good ground, should sow some
seeds, either in stony places, or places that are to be trodden
of men, or in places filled with brambles and briers (as our
Master also set forth, indicating by these the diversities of the
see that you perceive that you are to be convicted, and you