Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 135
all may equally enjoy who are born in this world. But as the
rain given by Elohim equally nourishes the corn and the tares,
but at the time of harvest the crops are gathered into the barn,
but the chaff or the tares are burnt in the fire, so in the day of
judgment, when the righteous shall be introduced into the
kingdom of heaven, and the unrighteous shall be cast out, then
also the justice of Elohim shall be shown. For if He remained
for ever alike to the evil and the good, this would not only not
be good, but even unrighteous and unjust; that the righteous
and the unrighteous should be held by Him in one order of
Chapter XXXIX: Immortality of the spirit
be satisfied is, whether the spirit is immortal; for I cannot take
up the burden of righteousness unless I know first concerning
the immortality of the spirit; for indeed if it is not immortal,
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this were
ascertained, the perfect order of...obedience would straight-
your knowledge of the order of discussion, you seem to me
now to have answered contrary to order; for when I ask you to
show whether the spirit is immortal, you say that we must
first inquire whether Elo
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Chapter XL: Proved by the Success of the Wicked in This Life
against Yahweh, and who spend their whole life in injustice
and pleasure die in their own bed and obtain honorable burial;
while others who worship Yahweh, and maintain their life
frugally with all honesty and sobriety, die in deserted places
for their observance of righteousness, so that they are not
even thought worthy of burial. Where, then, is the justice of
Yahweh, if there be no immortal spirit to suffer punishment in