Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 191
poral destruction; but he who offends against Him who is the
sole and true Elohim, shall suffer eternal punishment, and that
deservedly, as having injured by a wrongful condition the
name which is unique.
Chapter XX: Egyptian Idolatry,
Although this word Elohim is not the name of Elohim, but
meantime that word is employed by men as His Name; therefore,
as I have said, when it is used reproachfully, the reproach
is referred to the injury of the true Name. In short, the ancient
Egyptians, who thought that they had discovered the theory of
the heavenly revolutions and the nature of the stars, nevertheless,
through the demons blocking up their senses, subjected
the true Name, Yahweh, to all kinds of indignity. For some
taught that their ox, which is called Apis, ought to be worshipped;
others taught that the he-goat, others that cats, the
ibis, a fish also, a serpent, onions, drains, and the breaking of
wind 1, ought to be regarded as deities, and innumerable other
things, which I am ashamed even to mention.
Chapter XXI: Egyptian Idolatry More Reasonable Than Others
When Kefa was speaking thus, all we who heard him laughed.
Then said Kefa: You laugh at the absurdities of others because
through long custom you do not see your own. For
indeed it is not without reason that you laugh at the folly of
the Egyptians, who worship dumb animals, while they themselves
are rational. But I will tell you how they also laugh at
you; for they say, We worship living animals, though mortal;
but you worship and adore things which never were alive at
all. They add this also, that they are figures and allegories of
certain powers by whose help the race of men is governed.
Taking refuge in this for shame, they fabricate these and similar
excuses, and so endeavor to screen their error. But this is
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breaking of wind. Indeed!