Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 147
i-
in the earth, and has heaped mountains upon it, that it may be
found by those only who are able to dig down into the depths?
It is not so; but as He has surrounded the mountains and the
earth with the expanse of heaven, so hath He veiled the truth
with the curtain of His own love, that he alone may be able to
Chapter LIX: Good and Evil in Pairs
this world certain pairs; and he who comes first of the pairs is
of evil, he who comes second, of good. And in this is given to
every man an occasion of right judgment, whether he is simple
or prudent. For if he is simple and believes him who comes
first, though moved thereto by signs and prodigies, he must of
necessity, for the same reason, believe him who comes
second; for he will be persuaded by signs and prodigies, as he
was before. When he believes this second one, he will learn
from him that he ought not to believe the first, who comes of
evil; and so the error of the former is corrected by the emendation
of the latter. But if he will not receive the second, because
he has believed the first, he will deservedly be
condemned as unjust; for unjust it is, that when he believed
the first on account of his signs, he will not believe the second,
though he bring the same, or even greater signs. But if he has
not believed the first, it follows that he may be moved to believe
the second. For his mind has not become so completely
inactive but that it may be roused by the redoubling of marvels.
But if he is prudent, he can make distinction of the signs.
And if indeed he has believed in the first, he will be moved to
the second by the increase in the miracles, and by comparison
he will apprehend which are better; although clear tests of
miracles are recognized by all learned men, as we have shown
in the regular order of our discussion. But if any one, as being
whole and not needing a physician, is not moved to the first,