Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 267
with him the race of all plants and animals. And yet even those
who sprang from them, after a time again did deeds like to
those of their predecessors; for those things that had befallen
them were forgotten, so that their descendants did not even
believe that the flood had taken place. Wherefore Elohim also
decreed that there should not be another flood in the present
world, else there should have been one in every generation,
according to the account of their sins by reason of their unbelief;
but He rather granted that certain angels who delight in
evil should bear sway over the several nationsand to them
was given power over individual men, yet only on this condition,
if any one first had made himself subject to them by sinninguntil
He should come who delights in good, and by Him
the number of the righteous should be completed, and by the
increase of the number of obedient men all over the world
disobedience should be in some measure repressed, and it
should be known to all that all that is good is done by Yahweh.
Chapter LI: Evils Brought in by Sin
nbelieving
in regard to things to come, runs into evils by doing
evil deeds. And these are the things in the world which seem
to be done contrary to order, which owe their existence to
hweh
is for man to worship Him, which He granted to men in
the beginning. They were walking in the good way of life in
order to enjoy incorruptible good things. But when they
sinned, they gave birth to evil by sin. And to every good thing
evil is joined as by a certain covenant of alliance on the part of
sin, since indeed the earth has been polluted with human
blood, and altars have been lighted to demons, and they have
polluted the very air by the filthy smoke of sacrifices; and so at
length the elements, being first corrupted, have handed over
to men the fault of their corruption, as roots nourish the
branches and the fruit.