Book V - Snyder Bible

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render to every one according to his deeds. Now, then, you
have our position; go on as you please, either overthrowing
mine or establishing your own, that I may meet your statements.
Or if you wish me to
Chapter VII: The Way Cleared
son, to speak first, or whether you prefer that I should speak,
makes no difference, especially with those who discuss in a
friendly spirit. However, speak you first, and I will gladly hear;
and I wish you may be able even to follow out those things
that are to be spoken by me, and to put in opposition to them
those things that are contrary to them, and from the comparison
of both to sho
it, I can even state your side of the argument, and then answer
I have not yet spoken, and so I shall believe that you can follow
out my side of the arg
obvious, even by the proposition which you have laid down, to
those who are skilled in doctrines of this sort; and its consequence
is certain. And because I am not ignorant of what the
propositions of the philosophers are, I know what follows
from those things which you have propounded; especially because
I have frequented the schools of Epicurus in preference
to the other philosophers. But my brother Aquila has attended
more to the Pyrrhonists, and our other brother to the Platonists
and Aristotelians; therefore you have to do with learned
informed us how you perceived the things that follow from the
statements which have been enunciated. But I professed
something more than the tenet of Epicurus; for I introduced
the genesis, and asserted that it is the cause of all the doings of
Chapter VIII: Instincts
When the old man had said this, I Clement said to him:
to acknowl-