Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 231
she loves, unless she believed that there is some great blessing
in mikvah. Whence, also, I find fault with very many, who,
when they are themselves immersed and believe, yet do nothing
worthy of faith with those whom they love, such as wives,
or children, or friends, whom they do not exhort to that which
they themselves have attained, as they would do if indeed they
believed that eternal life is thereby bestowed. In short, if they
see them to be sick or to be subject to any danger bodily, they
grieve and mourn, because they are sure that in this destruction
threatens them. So, then, if they were sure of this, that the
punishment of eternal fire awaits those who do not worship
Elohim, when would they cease warning and exhorting? Or, if
they refused, how would they not mourn and bewail them,
being sure that eternal torments awaited them? Now, therefore,
we shall send for that woman at once, and see if she loves
the faith of our beliefs; and as we find, so shall we act. But
since your mother has judged so faithfully concerning mikvah,
Chapter XXXVI: The Sons Pleading
But she declared with an oath, in presence of my master
Kefas wife, that from the time she recognized her son, she had
been unable to take any food from excess of joy, excepting only
that yesterday she drank a cup of water. Kefa wife also
bore witness, saying that it was even so. Then Aquila said:
efa, smiling,
kvah, for it was not done in
Elohim, wishing that our mother, on our recognition, should
not be separated even for one day from participation of our
table, preordained this fasting. For as in her ignorance she
preserved her chastity, that it might profit her in order to the
grace of mikvah; so she fasted before she knew the reason of
fasting, that it might profit her in order to be immersed, and
that immediately, from the beginning of our acquaintance, she