Book V - Snyder Bible

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people as unskillful, then foreseeing that being thus exposed
to the people, I must of necessity be indignant, and confess
that I was not truly penitent, you anticipated me, that you
might say, that I should, after my penitence, again return to
my infidelity, that you might seem to have conquered on all
sides, both if I continued in the penitence which I had professed,
and if I did not continue; and so you should be believed
to be wise, because you had foreseen these things, while I
should seem to be deceived, because I did not foresee your
trick. But you foreseeing mine have used subtlety and circumvented
me. But, as I said, your victory is the result of fortune,
not of truth: yet I know why I did not foresee this; because I
stood by you and spoke with you in my goodness, and bore
patiently with you. But now I shall show you the power of my
nning.
But having entered the womb of Rachel, I was born of
her as a man, that I might be visible to men. I have flown
through the air; I have been mixed with fire and been made
one body with it; I have made statues to move; I have animated
lifeless things; I have made stones bread; I have flown
from mountain to mountain; I have moved from place to place
only have I done these things; but even now I am able to do
them, that by facts I may prove to all, that I am the son of elohim,
enduring to eternity, and that I can make those who believe
on me endure in like manner for ever. But your words
are all vain; nor can you perform any real works such as I have
now mentioned, as he also who sent you is a magician, who yet
Chapter XLVIII: Attempts to Create a Disturbance
with the things that belong to others; for that you are a magician,
you have confessed and made manifest by the very deeds