Book V - Snyder Bible

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Himself be thought to be good? But if He shall dissolve and
destroy it as evil, how shall He not appear to be evil, who has
Chapter XXVIII: Why to Be Dissolved
To this Ke
away from your blasphemies, we endure them patiently, for
you shall yourself render an account for the things that you
speak. Listen now, therefore. If indeed that heaven which is
visible and transient had been made for its own sake, there
would have been some reason in what you say, that it ought
not to be dissolved. But if it was made not for its own sake, but
for the sake of something else, it must of necessity be dissolved,
that that for which it seems to have been made may
appear. As I might say, by way of illustration, however fairly
and carefully the shell of the egg may seem to have been
formed, it is yet necessary that it be broken and opened, that
the chick may issue from it, and that may appear for which the
form of the whole egg seems to have been molded. So also,
therefore, it is necessary that the condition of this world pass
away, that that more joyous condition of the heavenly king-
Chapter XXIX: Corruptible and Temporary Things Made by the
Incorruptible and Eternal
which has been made by Elohim, can be dissolved. For things
made by the Eternal One are eternal, while things made by a
corruptible one are temporary and decayin
not so. Indeed corruptible and temporary things of all sorts
are made by mortal creatures; but the Eternal does not always
make things corruptible, nor always incorruptible; but according
to the will of Elohim the Creator, so will be the things
which He creates. For the power of Elohim is not subject to
that Elohim is visible to no one; but when that heaven shall be