Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 175
Yahweh. And those who had been first deceived, collecting the
ashes of Zoroasterwho, as we have said, was burnt up by the
indignation of the demon, to whom he had been too troublesomebrought
them to the Persians, that they might be preserved
by them with perpetual watching, as divine fire fallen
from heaven, and might be worshipped as a heavenly Elohim.
Chapter XXX: Hero-Worship
set up statues, instituted mysteries and ceremonies and sacrifices,
to those whom they had admired, either for some arts or
for virtue, or at least had held in very great affection; and rejoiced,
by means of all things belonging to elohim, to hand
down their fame to posterity; and that especially, because, as
we have already said, they scented to be supported by some
fantasies of magic art, so that by invocation of demons something
seemed to be done and moved by them towards the deception
of men. To these they add also certain solemnities, and
drunken banquets, in which men might with all freedom indulge;
and demons, conveyed into them in the chariot of repletion,
might be mixed with their very bowels, and holding a
place there, might bind the acts and thoughts of men to their
own will. Such errors, then, having been introduced from the
beginning, and having been aided by lust and drunkenness, in
which carnal men chiefly delight, the obedience of Elohim,
which consisted in continence and sobriety, began to become
rare amongst men, and to be well-nigh abolished.
Chapter XXXI: Idolatry Led to All Immorality
seeing
Yahweh, neither dared sin nor do injury to their neighbors,
being persuaded that Yahweh sees the actions and
movements of every one; when religious worship was directed
to lifeless images, concerning which they were certain
that they were incapable of hearing, or sight, or motion, they
began to sin licentiously, and to go forward to every crime,
because they had no fear of suffering anything at the hands of