Book V - Snyder Bible

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wish politely to escape from the contest; for what have you
seen to have made me angry against you, a man desiring to
deceive so great a multitude, and when you have nothing to
say, pretending moderation, who also command, forsooth, by
your authority that the controversy shall be conducted as you
nforce
myself to bear patiently your unskillfulness that I may
show that you indeed wish to seduce the people, but that I
teach the truth. But now I refrain from a discussion concerning
that boundless light. Answer me, therefore, what I ask of
you. Since Yahweh, as you say, made all things, whence comes
in this way is not the
part of an opponent, but of a learner. If therefore you wish to
learn, confess it; and I shall first teach you how you ought to
learn, and when you have learned to listen, then straightway I
shall begin to teach you. But if you do not wish to learn, as
though you knew all things, I shall first set forth the faith
which I preach, and do you also set forth what you think to be
true; and when the profession of each of us has been disclosed,
let our hearers judge whose discourse is supported by
fellow who offers to teach me! Nevertheless I shall suffer you,
and bear with your ignorance and your arrogance. I confess,
Chapter XVI: Existence of Evil
how unskillfully you have framed your question. For you say,
efore
you asked this, three sorts of questions should have had
the precedence: First, Whether there be evil? Secondly, what
evil is. Thirdly
any man who does not confess that there is evil in this life?
Whence I also, thinking that you had even the common sense
of all men, asked, whence evil is; not as wishing to learn, since
I know all things, least of all from you, who know nothing, but