Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 277
thing in our own power, it is now time for you two to set about
necessary to raise questions of this kind, if it were possible for
us to learn from the True Prophet, and to hear in a definite
proposition that anything depends on us and on the freedom
in which you disputed concerning the prophetic power.
Whence also I assent to and confirm your judgment that nothing
can be known by man with certainty and without doubt,
seeing that he has but a short period of lifea brief and
slender breath, by which he seems to be kept in life. However,
since I am understood to have promised to Clement, before I
heard anything of the prophetic power, that I should show
that all things are subject to Genesis, or that I should learn
from him that there is something in ourselves, let him do me
this favor, that he first begin, and propound and explain what
may be objected. For I, ever since I heard from you a few
words concerning the power of prophecy, have, I confess,
been confounded, considering the greatness of foreknowledge.
Nor do I think that anything ought to be received which is collected
from conjectures and opin
Chapter III: Beginning of the Discussion.
When the old man had said this, I Clement began to speak
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house, separated by the interposition of this firmament, which
is called heaven; and appointed angelic powers to dwell in the
higher, and a multitude of men to be born in this visible world,
from amongst whom He might choose friends for His Son, with
whom He might rejoice, and who might be prepared for Him
as a beloved bride for a bridegroom. But even till the time of
the marriage, which is the revelation of the world to come, He
has appointed a certain power, to choose out and watch over
the good ones of those who are born in this world, and to preserve
them for His Son, who is without sin, set apart in a certain
place of the world, in which there are already some who
are there being prepared, as I said, as a bride adorned for the