Book V - Snyder Bible

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should not know Him. For, behold, by you who are now
present, who desire to hear the doctrine of His faith and to
know what, and how, and of what sort is His coming, the prophetic
truth is fulfilled. For this is what the prophets foretold,
that He is to he sought for by you who never heard of Him.
And, therefore, seeing that the prophetic sayings are fulfilled
even in yourselves, you rightly believe in Him alone, you
rightly wait for Him, you rightly inquire concerning Him, that
you not only may wait for Him, but also believing, you may
obtain the inheritance of His kingdom; according to what He
Himself said, that every one is made the servant of him to
whom he yields subjection.
Chapter XIII: Invitation of the Gentiles
Wherefore awake, and take to yourselves our Master and
Elohim, even that Master who is Yahweh both of heaven and
earth, and conform yourselves to His image and likeness, as
the True Prophet Himself teaches, saying, Be ye merciful, as
also your heavenly Father is merciful, who makes His sun to
rise upon the good and the evil, and rains upon the just and
the unjust. Imitate Him, therefore, and fear Him, as the commandment
is given to men, You shall worship Yahweh your
Elohim, and Him only shalt thou serve. For it is profitable to
you to serve this Master alone, that through Him knowing the
one Elohim ye may be freed from the many whom ye vainly
feared. For he who fears not Elohim the Creator of all, but
fears those whom he himself with his own hands hath made,
what does he do but make himself subject to a vain and senseless
fear, and render himself more vile and abject than those
very things, the fear of which he has conceived in his mind?
But rather, by the goodness of Him who invites you, return to
your former nobleness and by good deeds show that you bear
the image of your Creator, that by contemplation of His likeness
ye may be believed to be even His sons.
Chapter XIV: Idols Unprofitable