Book V - Snyder Bible

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But on the following day, Kefa, as usual, rising before dawn,
entreat you, my brethren and fellow-servants, that if any of
you is not able to wake, he should not torment himself
through respect to my presence, because sudden change is
difficult; but if for a long time one gradually accustoms himself,
that will not be distressing which comes of use. For we
had not all the same training; although in course of time we
shall be able to be molded into one habit, for they say that custom
holds the place of a second nature. But I call Yahweh to
witness that I am not offended, if any one is not able to wake;
but rather by this, if, when any one sleeps all through the
night, he does not in the course of the day fulfill that which he
omitted in the night. For it is necessary to give heed intently
and unceasingly, to the study of doctrine, that our mind may
be filled with the thought of Yahweh only: because in the mind
which is filled with the thought of Yahweh, no place will be
When Kefa spoke thus to us, every one of us eagerly assured
him, that...we were already awake, being satisfied with
short sleep, but that we were afraid to arouse him, because it
even this O Kefa we had almost ventured to take upon ourselves,
because our hearts, agitated with longing for your
words, drove sleep wholly from our eyes. But again our affection
towards you opposed it, and did not suffer us violently to
you are willingly awake through desire of hearing, I wish to
repeat to you more carefully, and to explain in their order, the
things that were spoken yesterday without arrangement. And
this I propose to do throughout these daily disputations, that
by night, when privacy of time and place is afforded, I shall
unfold in correct order, and by a straight line of explanation,
anything that in the controversy has not been stated with sufficient
full