Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 249
if they are acted on by rapid heat, render the air impure and
pestilential. And the earth also, receiving the warm rain, does
not afford nourishment to the crops, but destruction. In this
who can doubt that there is the working of Yahweh? In short,
Egypt, which is scorched with the heat of Ethiopia, in its
neighborhood, lest its air should be incurably corrupted by the
effects of showers, its plains do not receive rain furnished to
them from the clouds, but, as it were, an earthly shower from
the overflow of the Nile.
Chapter XXIV: Rivers and Seas.
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does their abundant supply fail, nor does the sea, though
it receives so great quantities of water, experience any increase,
but both those elements which contribute to it and
those which are thus contributed remain in the same proportion.
But you will say to me: The salt water naturally consumes
the fresh water which is poured into it. Well, in this is
revealed the work of providence, that it made that element
salt into which it turned the courses of all the waters which it
had provided for the use of men. So that through so great
spaces of time the channel of the sea has not been filled,
though it once produced a deluge destructive to the earth and
to men. Nor will any one be so foolish as to think that this so
great reason and so great providence has been arranged by
irrational nature.