Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 177
Chapter XXXIII: The Weakest Messianic More Powerful Than
the Strongest Demon
and that therefore the demons are afraid of us? Nay, we are of
one and the same nature with you, but we differ in obedience.
But if you will also be like us, we do not grudge it, but rather
we exhort you, and wish you to be assured, that when the
same faith and obedience and innocence of life shall be in you
that is in us, you will have equal and the same power and virtue
against demons, through Yahweh rewarding your faith.
For as he who has soldiers under him, although he may be in-
one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh;
do, not by his own power, but by the fear of Caesar; so every
faithful one commands the demons, although they seem to he
much stronger than men, and that not by means of his own
power, but by means of the power of Yahweh, who has put
them in subjection. For even that which we have just spoken
of, that Caesar is held in awe by all soldiers, and in every
camp, and in his whole kingdom, though he is but one man,
and maybe feeble in respect of bodily strength, this is not effected
but by the power of Yahweh, who inspires all with fear,
that they may be subject to one.
Chapter XXXIV: Temptation of Moshiach
no power against a man, unless one voluntarily submit himself
to his desires. Whence even that one who is the prince of
wickedness, approached Him who, as we have said, is appointed
of Yahweh King of peace, tempting Him, and began to
promise Him all the glory of the world; because he knew that
when he had offered this to others, for the sake of deceiving
them, they had worshipped him. Therefore, disobedient as he
was, and unmindful of himself, which indeed is the special peculiarity
of wickedness, he presumed that he should be worshipped
by Him by whom he knew that he was to be