Book V - Snyder Bible

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Chapter XXXVII: Kefa Inexorable
Then said
taking occasion from a mothers love; but let you, and me with
you, fast this day along with her, and tomorrow she shall be
immersed: for it is not right that the precepts of truth be relaxed
and weakened in favor of any person or friendship. Let
us not shrink, then, from suffering along with her, for it is a sin
to transgress any commandment. But let us teach our bodily
senses, which are our outer senses, to be in subjection to our
inner senses; and not compel our inner senses, which savor
the things that be of Elohim, to follow the outer senses, which
savor the things that be of the flesh. For to this end also Yahweh
commanded, saying: Whosoever shall look upon a woman
to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already
in his heart. And to this He added: If thy right eye offend thee,
pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee
that one of thy members perish, rather than thy whole body
be cast into Geh Hinnom fire. He does not say, has offended
thee, that you should then cast away the cause of sin after you
have sinned; but if it offend you, that is, that before you sin
you should cut off the cause of the sin that provokes and irritates
you. But let none of you think, brethren, that Yahweh
recommended the cutting off of the members. His meaning is,
that the purpose should be cut off, not the members, and the
causes which allure to sin, in order that our thought, borne up
on the chariot of sight, may push towards the love of Elohim,
supported by the bodily senses; and not give loose reins to the
eyes of the flesh as to wanton horses, eager to turn their running
outside the way of the commandments, but may subject
the bodily sight to the judgment of the mind, and not suffer
those eyes of ours, which Elohim intended to be viewers and
witnesses of His work, to become panders of evil desire. And
therefore let the bodily senses as well as the internal thought
be subject to Yahwehs Torah, and let them serve His will,