Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 145
Chapter LV: Ten Commandments Corresponding to the Plagues
of Egypt
own salvation please the evil one, and those who by study of
their own profit seek to please the good One, ten things have
been prescribed as a test to this present age, according to the
number of the ten plagues which were brought upon Egypt.
For when Moshe, according to the commandment of Yahweh,
demanded of Pharaoh that he should let the people go, and in
token of his heavenly commission showed signs, his rod being
thrown upon the ground was turned into a serpent. And when
Pharaoh could not by these means be brought to consent, as
having freedom of will, again the magicians seemed to do similar
signs, by permission of Yahweh, that the purpose of the
king might be proved from the freedom of his will, whether he
would rather believe the signs wrought by Moshe, who was
sent by Yahweh, or those which the magicians rather seemed
to work than actually wrought. For truly he ought to have understood
from their very name that they were not workers of
truth, because they were not called messengers of Yahweh,
but magicians, as the tradition also intimates. Moreover, they
seemed to maintain the contest up to a certain point, and afterwards
they confessed of themselves, and yielded to their
superior. Therefore the last plague is inflicted, the destruction
of the first-born, and then Moshe is commanded to consecrate
the people by the sprinkling of blood; and so, gifts being presented,
with so much entreaty he is asked to depart with the
people.
Chapter LVI: Simon Resisted Kefa, as the Magicians Moshe
For as then, when Moshe exhorted the king to believe Yahweh,
the magicians opposed him by a pretended exhibition of similar
signs, and so kept back the unbelievers from salvation; so
also now, when I have come forth to teach all nations to believe
in the true Yahweh, Simon the magician resists me, act-