Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 27
tion to the question, went on with his discourse, which had
been interrupted by the unseasonable challenge, only adding
declare to you the words and the wondrous works of Him who
has sent us, and to confirm the truth of what we speak, not by
artfully devised arguments, but by witnesses produced from
amongst yourselves. For I recognize many standing in the
midst of you whom I remember to have heard along with us
the things which we have heard, and to have seen what we
have seen. But be it in your option to receive or to spurn the
tidings which we bring to you. For we cannot keep back what
we know to be for your advantage, because, if we be silent,
woe is to us; but to you, if you receive not what we speak, destruction.
I could indeed very easily answer your foolish challenges,
if you asked for the sake of learning truthI mean as
to the difference of a gnat and an elephant; but now it were
absurd to speak to you of these creatures, when the very Creator
and Framer of all things is un
Chapter IX: n on Behalf of Bar-Naba
When he had thus spoken, all, as with one consent, with
rude voice raised a shout of derision, to put him to shame, and
to silence him, crying out that he was a barbarian and a madman.
When I saw matters going on in this way, being filled, I
know not whence, with a certain zeal, and inflamed with fervent
enthusiasm, I could not keep silence, but cried out with
hweh hide
His will from you, whom He foresaw to be unworthy of the
knowledge of Himself, as is manifest to those who are really
wise, from what you are now doing. For when you see that
preachers of the will of Yahweh have come amongst you, because
their speech makes no show of knowledge of the grammatical
art, but in simple and unpolished language they set
before you the divine commands, so that all who hear may be
able to follow and to understand the things that are spoken,
you deride the ministers and messengers of your salvation,
not knowing that it is the condemnation of you who think