Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 263
to say also why they were made, and to declare that they have
my son, to say that those things which seem formed by art are
made by mind, by reason of other things which we see to be
things which are done orderly compel you to say that they are
done by Yahweh, and that irrational nature cannot produce a
rational work? For it is certain, nor do we at all deny, that in
this world some things are done orderly, and some disorderly.
Should we believe, therefore, that those things that are done
rationally are done by Providence, but those that are done irrationally
and inordinately, that seem to befall naturally, are
accidents? But I wonder that men do not perceive that where
there is sense that things may be done in both an orderly and
disorderly fashion, but where there is no sense neither the one
nor the other can be done, for reason makes order, and the
course of order necessarily produces something out of order,
if anything contrary is allowed to disturb or
Chapter XLV: Motions of the Sun and Moon.
are shown in heaven: one of the sun, the other of the moon;
and these are followed by five other stars, each describing its
own separate orbit. These, therefore, Elohim has placed in the
heaven, by which the temperature of the air may be regulated
according to the seasons, and the order of vicissitudes and alternations
may be kept. But by means of the very same, if at
any time He sends plague and corruption upon the earth for
the sins of men, the air is disturbed, pestilence is brought
upon animals, blight upon crops, and a destructive year in
every way upon men. Thus it is that by one and the same
means order is both kept and destroyed. For it is clear even to
the unbelieving and unskillful that the course of the sun,
which is useful and necessary to the world, and which is as-