Book V - Snyder Bible

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Chapter V: Advantages of Knowledge
Wherefore we must, above all things, hasten to the knowledge
of the truth, that, as with a light kindled thereat, we may
be able to dispel the darkness of errors! For ignorance, as we
have said, is a great evil; but because it has no substance, it is
easily dispelled by those who are in earnest. For ignorance is
nothing else than not knowing what is good for us; once know
this, and ignorance perishes. Therefore the knowledge of truth
ought to be eagerly sought after; and no one can confer it except
the True Prophet. For this is the gate of life to those who
will enter, and the road of good works to those going to the
city of salvation.
Chapter VI: Free Will
Whether any one, truly hearing the word of the True
Prophet Yahshua is willing or unwilling to receive it, and to
embrace His burden, that is, the precepts of life, he has either
in his power, for we are free in will. For if it were so, that those
who hear had it not in their power to do otherwise than as
they had heard, there were some power of nature in virtue of
which it were not free to him to pass over to another opinion.
Or if, again, no one of the hearers could at all receive it, this
also were a power of nature which should compel the doing of
some one thing, and should leave no place for the other
course. But now, since it is free for the mind to turn its judgment
to which side it pleases, and to choose the way which it
approves, it is clearly obvious that there is in men a liberty of
choice.
Chapter VII: Responsibility of Knowledge
Therefore, before any one hears what is good for him, it is
certain that he is ignorant; and being ignorant, he wishes and
desires to do what is not good for him; wherefore he is not
judged for that. But when once he has heard the causes of his
error, and has received the method of truth, then, if he remain
in those errors with which he had been long ago preoccupied,