Book V - Snyder Bible

156
than on account of your love of Him. As friends of Yahweh,
therefore, acquiesce in His will; but also judge yourselves
what is right. Would it not have seemed wicked, if, when Simon
was deceiving you, I had been detained by the brethren
in Yahrushalayim, and had not come to you, and that although
you had Zacchai among you, a good and eloquent man? So
now also consider that it would be wicked, if, when Simon has
gone forth to assail the Gentiles, who are wholly without a defender,
I should be detained by you, and should not follow
him. Wherefore let us see to it, that we do not, by an unrea-
Chapter LXXII: More Than Ten Thousand immersed
promised. Be you constant in hearing the word; and at the end
of that time, if any are able and willing to follow us, they may
do so, if duty will admit of it. And when I say if duty will admit I
mean that no one by his departure must sadden any one who
ought not to be saddened, as by leaving parents who ought not
to be left, or a faithful wife, or any other person to whom he is
sputing
and teaching day by day, he filled up the tithe appointed
with the labor of teaching; and when the festival day
arrived, upwards of ten thousand were immersed.
Chapter LXXIII: Tidings of Simon
But in those days a letter was received from the brethren
who had gone before, in which were detailed the crimes of
Simon, how going from city to city he was deceiving multitudes,
and everywhere maligning Kefa, so that, when he
should come, no one might afford him a hearing. For he asserted
that Kefa was a magician, a godless man, injurious,
mpossible.
But if any one attempts to confute him, he is cut off
by secret snares by him, through means of his attendants.