Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 139
Chapter XLV: A Home-Thrust
But Simon hearing this, and being smitten by his conscience,
changed color and became bloodless; for he was
afraid, if he denied it, that his house would be searched, or
that Kefa in his indignation would betray him more openly,
eseech
you, Kefa, by that good Elohim who is in you, to overcome
the wickedness that is in me. Receive me to repentance,
and you shall have me as an assistant in your preaching. For
now I have learned in very deed that you are a prophet of the
true Elohim, and therefore you alone know the secret and hid-
seeking repentance; in a little while you shall see him returning
again to his infidelity. For, thinking that I am a prophet,
forasmuch as I have disclosed his wickedness, which he supposed
to be secret and hidden, he has promised that he will
repent. But it is not lawful for me to lie, nor must I deceive,
whether this infidel be saved or not saved. For I call heaven
and earth to witness, that I spoke not by a prophetic spirit
what I said, and what I intimated, as far as was possible, to the
listening crowds; but I learned from some who once were his
associates in his works, but have now been converted to our
faith, what things he did in secret. Therefore I spoke what I
But when Simon heard this, he assailed Kefa with curses
and reproach
men, to whom fortune, not truth, hath given the victory. But I
sought repentance not for defect of knowledge, but in order
that you, thinking that by repentance I should become your
talmid, might entrust to me all the secrets of your profession,
and so at length, knowing them all, I might confute you. But as
you cunningly understood for what reason I had pretended
penitence, and acquiesced as if you did not understand my
stratagem, that you might first expose me in presence of the