Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 241
if it be taught that there is providence, and that the
world was made by it, other questions meet us which must be
discussed. For it will be asked in what way providence acts,
whether generally towards the whole, or especially towards
the parts, or generally also towards the parts, or both generally
towards the whole, and especially towards the parts? But by
general providence we mean this: as if Elohim, at first making
the world, has given an order and appointed a course to
things, and has ceased to take any further care of what is done.
But special providence towards the parts is of this sort, that
He exercises providence over some men or places, but not
over others. But general over all and at the same time special
over the parts is in this wise: if Elohim made all things at first,
and exercises providence over each individual even to the end,
and renders to every one according to his deeds.
Chapter XII: Prayer Inconsistent with Genesis
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made all things in the beginning, and having imposed a
course and order upon things, takes no further account of
them, affirms that all things are done according to what you
call genesis. To this, therefore, we shall first reply; and especially
to those who worship the false elohim and defend genesis.
Assuredly, these men, when they sacrifice to the false
elohim and pray to them, hope that they shall obtain something
in opposition to genesis, and so they annul genesis. But
when they laugh at those who incite to virtue and exhort to
continence, and say that nobody can do or suffer anything unless
what is decreed to him by fate, they assuredly cut up by
the roots all worship of any elohim. For why should you worship
those from whom you can obtain nothingwhich the method
of what is decreed does not allow? Let this suffice in the
meantime, in opposition to these men. But I say that the world
is made by the true Elohim and that it is at some time to be
destroyed by Him, that that world may appear which is eternal
and which is made for this end, that it may be always, and
that it may receive those who, in the judgment of Elohim, are