Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 143
which every one required in his mind; but that, as I have said,
can only be done in the course of a long time. Now, then, ask
Chapter LII: False Signs and Miracles
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Kefa; but this is what I desire to learn: how Simon, who
is the enemy of Yahweh, is able to do such and so great things?
For indeed he told no lie in his declaration of what he has
is one and true, has resolved to prepare good and faithful
friends for His first begotten; but knowing that none can be
good unless they have in their power that perception by which
they may become good, that they may be of their own intent
what they choose to beand otherwise they could not be truly
good, if they were kept in goodness not by purpose, but by
necessityhas given to every one the power of his own will,
that he may be what he wishes to be. And again, foreseeing
that that power of will would make some choose good things
and others evil, and so that the human race would necessarily
be divided into two classes, He has permitted each class to
choose both a place and a king, whom they would. For the
good King rejoices in the good, and the wicked one in the evil.
And although I have expounded those things more fully to you,
O Clement, in that treatise in which I discoursed on predestination
and the end, yet it is fitting that I should now make
clear to Niceta also, as he asks me, what is the reason than Simon,
whose thoughts are against Yahweh, is able to do so
great marvels.
Chapter LIII: Self-Love the Foundation of Goodness
will not inquire what is advantageous to himself. For how can
any one love another if he does not love himself? Or to whom
will that man not be an enemy who cannot be a friend to himself?
In order, therefore, that there might be a distinction between
those who choose good and those who choose evil,