Book V - Snyder Bible

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Chapter XXXIII: Origin of Wickedness
Hence is the origin of all wickedness; hence murders, adulteries,
thefts; and a nursery is formed of all evils and wickednesses,
while you indulge in profane libations and odors, and
give to wicked spirits an opportunity of ruling and obtaining
some sort of authority over you. For when they invade your
senses, what are they doing other than working the things
which belong to lust and injustice and cruelty, and compel you
to be obedient to all things that are pleasing to them? Elohim,
indeed, permits you to suffer this at their hands by a certain
righteous judgment, that from the very disgrace of your
doings and your feelings you may understand how unworthy
it is to be subject to demons and not to Elohim. Hence also, by
the friendship of demons, men are brought to disgraceful and
base deeds; hence, men proceed even to the destruction of life,
either through the fire of lust, or through the madness of anger
through excess of grief, so that, as is well known, some
have even laid violent hands upon themselves. And this, as we
have said, by a just sentence of Elohim they are not prevented
from doing, that they may both understand to whom they
have yielded themselves in subjection, and know whom they
have forsaken.
Chapter XXXIV: Who are Worshippers of Yahweh?
But some one will say, These passions sometimes befall
even those who worship Yahweh. It is not true. For we say,
that he is a worshipper of Elohim, who does the will of Elohim,
and observes the precepts of His Torah. For in Elohim estimation
he is not a Jew who is called a Jew among men (nor is
he a Gentile that is called a Gentile), but he who, believing in
Elohim, fulfils His Torah and does His will, though he be not
circumcised. He is the true worshipper of Elohim, who not only
is himself free from passions, but also sets others free from
them; though they are so heavy that they are like mountains,
he removes them by means of the faith with which he believes
in Elohim. Yea, by faith he truly removes mountains with their