Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 229
Chapter XXXI: Too Much Joy
While she was yet speaking, my brothers could contain
themselves no longer, but rushed into their mothers embrace
t be disturbed, O woman;
be firm. These are your sons Faustinus and Faustus, whom
you supposed to have perished in the deep. But how they are
alive and how they escaped in that horrible night, and how the
one of them is called Niceta and the other Aquila, they will be
able to explain to you themselves, and we also shall hear it
nted,
being overcome with excess of joy. And after some time, being
darling sons, tell me what has befallen you since that dismal
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ship was broken up and we were being tossed upon the sea,
supported on a fragment of the wreck, certain men whose way
was to rob by sea found us and placed us in their boat, and
overcoming the power of the waves by rowing, by various
stretches brought us to Caesarea Stratonis. There they starved
us, beat us, and terrified us, that we might not disclose the
truth. And having changed our names, they sold us to a certain
widow, a very honorable woman named Justa. She, having
bought us, treated us as sons, so that she carefully educated us
in Greek literature and liberal arts. And when we grew up, we
also attended to philosophic studies, that we night be able to
confute the Gentiles, by supporting the doctrines of Yahwehs
truth by philosophic disputations.
Chapter XXXIII: Another Wreck Prevented.
s sake and boyish companionship,
to one Simon, a magician, who was educated along
with us, so that we were almost deceived by him. For there is