Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 125
choice is the sense of the spirit, possessing a quality by which
pplauding
Kefa for what he had spoe
expounded it magnificently and incomparably, for it is my duty
to bear testimony to your speaking well. Now if you will explain
to me this which I now ask you, in all things else I shall
submit to you. What I wish to learn, then, is this: if what Elohim
wishes to be, is; and what He does not wish to be, is not.
asking an absurd and incompetent question, I shall pardon
you and explain; but if you are aware that you are asking inconsequently,
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the Supreme Divinity, whatsoever that may be, which judges
and punishes those who sin, that I know not what I have said
inconsequently, or what absurdity there is in my words, that
is, in those that I have just ut
Chapter XXIV: Yahweh the Author of Good, Not of Evil
are ignorant, now learn. Your question demanded our deliverance
on two matters that are contrary to one another. For
every motion is divided into two parts, so that a certain part is
moved by necessity, and another by will; and those things
which are moved by necessity are always in motion, those
motion is performed by necessity to complete its appointed
circuit, and every state and service of heaven depends upon
necessary motions. But man directs the voluntary motions of
his own actions. And thus there are some things which have
been created for this end, that in their services they should he
subject to necessity, and should be unable to do aught else
than what has been assigned to them; and when they have accomplished
this service, the Creator of all things, who thus arranged
them according to His will, preserves them. But there
are other things, in which there is a power of will, and which
have a free choice of doing what they will. These, as I have
said, do not remain always in that order in which they were