Book V - Snyder Bible

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cup and platter, but the inside is full of pollution! O blind Prushim,
first make clean what is within, and what is without
shall be clean also. For truly, if the mind be purified by the
light of knowledge, when once it is clean and clear then it necessarily
takes care of that which is on the outside of a man,
that is, his flesh, that it also may he purified. But when that
which is on the outside, the cleansing of the flesh, is neglected,
it is certain that there is no care taken of the purity of the
mind and the cleanness of the heart. Thus therefore it comes
to pass that he who is clean inwardly is without doubt
cleansed outwardly also, but not always that he who is clean
outwardly is also cleansed inwardlyto wit, when he does
these things only that he may please men.
Chapter XII: Importance of Chastity
intercourse must not take place heedlessly and for the sake of
mere pleasure, but for the sake of begetting children. And
since this observance is found even amongst some of the lower
animals, it were a shame if it be not observed by men, reasonable
and worshipping Yahweh. But there is this further
reason why chastity should be observed by those who hold
the trite worship of Elohim, in those forms of it of which we
have spoken, and others of like sort, that it is observed strictly
even amongst those who are still held by the devil in error, for
even amongst them there is in some degree the observance of
chastity. What then? Will you not observe, now that you are
reformed, what you observed when you were in error?
Chapter XIII: Superiority of Moshiachs Morality
Must we then observe
all things which we did while we worshipped idols? Not all.
But whatever things were done well, these you ought to observe
even now; because, if anything is rightly done by those
who are in error, it is certain that that is derived from the
truth; whereas, if anything is not rightly done in the true obedience,
that is, without doubt, borrowed from error. For good