Book V - Snyder Bible

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my dress is what you see, a tunic with a tallit 2: and having
these, I require nothing more. This is sufficient for me, because
my mind does not regard things present, but things
eternal, and therefore no present and visible thing delights
me. Whence I embrace and admire indeed your good mind
towards me; and I commend you the more, because, though
you have been accustomed to so great abundance, you have
been able so soon to abandon it and to accommodate yourself
to this life of ours, which makes use of necessary things alone.
For wethat is, I and my brother Andrewhave grown up
from our childhood not only orphans, but also extremely poor,
and through necessity have become used to labor, whence
now also we easily bear the fatigues of our journeyings. But
rather, if you would consent and allow it, I, who am a working
Chapter VII: Kefa Humility
But I trembled when I heard this, and my tears immediately
gushed forth, because so great a man, who is worth more
than the whole world, had addressed such a proposal to me.
Then he, when he saw me weeping, inquired the reason; and I
it is
evil that I said I should serve you, you were first in fault in say-
alike: for it becomes me to do this to you; but it is grievous
that you, who are sent as the herald of the Most High Yahweh
to save the spi
ster Yahshua,
who came for the salvation of the whole world, and who was
nobler than any of His creation, submitted to be a servant, that
He might persuade us not to be ashamed to perform the min-
o-
2
tallit, the rectangular garment worn by Yisraelites, far predated the pallium. The Master
Yahweh (that is, Yahshua), in Bamidbar (Numbers) 15:37-41, ordered the Tzitzit
(tassels) to be attached to it at the corners as a reminder of His mitzvot (commandments).