Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 217
lishness in me to suppose that I can prevail with you; nevertheless
I give thanks to the providence of Elohim, because I
have merited to have
Chapter VIII: Clements Family History
Then said Kefa v-
There are indeed many powerful men, coming
of the stock of Caesar; for Caesar himself gave a wife to my
father, as being his relative, and educated along with him, and
of a suitably noble family. By her my father had twin sons,
born before me, not very like one another, as my father told
me; for I never knew them. But indeed I have not a distinct
recollection even of my mother; but I cherish the remembrance
of her face, as if I had seen it in a dream. My mothers
name was Matthidia, my fathers Faustinianus: my brothers,
Faustinus and Faustus. Now, when I was barely five years old,
my mother saw a visionso I learned from my fatherby
which she was warned that, unless she speedily fled the city
with her twin sons and was absent for ten years, she and her
children should perish by a miserable fate.
Chapter IX: Disappearance of His Mother and Brothers
who tenderly loved his sons, put them on
board a ship with their mother, and sent them to Athens to be
educated, with slaves and maidservants, and a sufficient
supply of money; retaining me only to be a comfort to him,
and thankful for this, that the vision had not commanded me
also to go with my mother. And at the end of a year my father
sent men to Athens with money for them, desiring also to
know how they did; but those who were sent never returned.
Again, in the third year, my sorrowful father sent other men
with money, who returned in the fourth year, and related that
they had seen neither my mother nor my brothers, that they
had never reached Athens, and that no trace had been found of
any one of those who had been with them.
Chapter X: Disappearance of His Father