Book V - Snyder Bible

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Therefore, when our mother had risen from her sleep, Kefa
began to address her, say
an observance of our Torah. We worship one Yahweh who
made the world, and we keep His Torah, in which He commands
us first of all to worship Him and to reverence His
Name, to honor our parents, and to preserve chastity and
uprightness. But this also we observe, not to have a common
table with Gentiles, unless when they believe, and on the reception
of the truth are immersed, and consecrated by calling
on the blessed Name of Yahweh Yahshua; and then we eat
with them. Otherwise, even if it were a father or a mother, or
wife, or sons, or brothers, we cannot have a common table
with them. Since, therefore, we do this for the special cause of
obedience, let it not seem hard to you that your son cannot eat
with you, until you have the same judgment of the faith that he
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to be immersed today? For even before I saw you I was wholly
alienated from those whom they call Elohim because they
were not able to do anything for me, although I frequently and
almost daily sacrificed to them. And as to chastity, what shall I
say, when neither in former times did pleasures deceive me,
nor afterwards did poverty compel me to sin? But I think you
know well enough how great was my love of chastity, when I
pretended that dream that I might escape the snares of unhallowed
love, and that I might go abroad with my twins, and
when I left this my son Clement alone to be a comfort to his
father. For if two were scarcely enough for me, how much
more it would have saddened their father if he had had none
at all? For he was wretched through his great affection towards
our sons, so that even the authority of the dream could
scarcely prevail upon him to give up to me Faustinus and
Faustus, the brothers of this Clement, and that himself should
be con