Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 253
sists of different substances, one mortal and the other immortal,
yet, by the skilful contrivance of the Creator, their diversity
does not prevent their union, and that although the substances
be diverse and alien the one from the other. For the one is taken
from the earth and formed by the Creator, but the other is
given from immortal substances; and yet the honor of its immortality
is not violated by this union. Nor does it, as some
think, consist of reason, desire, and passion, but rather such
affections seem to be in it by which it may be moved in each of
these directions. For the body, which consists of bones and
flesh, takes its beginning from the seed of a man, which is extracted
from the marrow by warmth, and conveyed into the
womb as into a soil, to which it adheres, and is gradually moistened
from the fountain of the blood, and so is changed into
flesh and bones, and is formed into the likeness of him who
injected the seed.
Chapter XXIX: Symmetry of the Body.
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the bones like pillars, on which the flesh might be sustained
and carried. Then, again, how an equal measure is
preserved on either side, that is, the right and the left, so that
foot answers to foot, hand to hand, and even finger to finger,
so that each agrees in perfect equality with each; and also eye
to eye, and ear to ear, which not only are suitable to and
matched with each other, but also are formed fit for necessary
uses. The hands, for instance, are so made as to be fit for work;
the feet for walking; the eyes, protected with sentinel eyebrows,
to serve the purpose of sight; the ears so formed for
hearing, that, like a cymbal, they vibrate the sound of the word
that falls upon them, and send it inward, and transmit it even
in the understanding of the heart; whereas the tongue, striking
against the teeth in speaking, performs the part of a fiddle
bow. The teeth also are formed, some for cutting and dividing
the food, and handing it over to the inner ones; and these, in
their turn, bruise and grind it like a mill, that it may be more