Book V - Snyder Bible

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worthy of it. But that there is another and invisible world,
which contains this visible world within itselfafter we have
finished our discussion concerning the visible world, we shall
come to it also.
Chapter XIII: A Creator Necessary
made, very many wise men among the philosophers do testify.
But that we may not seem to make use of assertions as witnesses,
as though we needed them, let us inquire, if you
please, concerning its principles. That this visible world is material
is sufficiently evident from the fact that it is visible. But
every body receives one of two Differentiae; for it is either
compact and solid, or divided and separate. And if the body of
which the world was made was compact and solid, and that
body was parted and divided through diverse species and
parts according to its differences, there must necessarily be
understood to have been some one to separate the body which
was compact and solid, and to draw it into many parts and
diverse forms; or if all this mass of the world was compounded
and compacted from diverse and dispersed parts of
bodies, still there must be understood to have been some one
to collect into one the dispersed parts, and to invest these
things with their different species.
Chapter XIV: Mode of Creation
rather of the opinion that Elohim the Creator made divisions
and distinctions from one body, which they call Matter, which
yet consisted of four elements, mingled into one by a certain
tempering of Elohim. For I think that what some have said is
vain: that the body of the world is simple, that is, without any
conjunction; since it is evident that what is simple can neither
be a body, nor can be mixed, or propagated, or dissolved; all of
which, we see, the bodies of the world do. For how could it be
dissolved if it were simple, and had not within it that from
which it might be resolved and divided? But if bodies seem to