Book V - Snyder Bible

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Chapter VII: The Old and the New Birth.
nequality
in the dispensation of the world. Since indeed all men
cannot know all things and accomplish all works, yet all need
the use and service of almost all. And on this account it is necessary
that one work, and another pay him for his work; that
one be servant, and another be master; that one be subject,
another be king. But this inequality, which is a necessary provision
for the life of men, Yahweh has turned into an occasion
of justice, mercy, and humanity: that while these things are
transacted between man and man, every one may have an opportunity
of acting justly with him to whom he has to pay
wages for his work, and of acting mercifully to him who cannot
pay his debt through sickness or poverty, and of acting
humanely towards those who by their creation seem to be
subject to him; also of maintaining gentleness towards sub-
He has given a Torah, thereby aiding the minds of men, that
they may the more easily perceive how they ought to act with
respect to everything, in what way they may escape evil, and
in what way tend to future blessings; and how, being regenerate
in water, they may by good works extinguish the fire of
their old birth. For our first birth descends through the fire of
lust, and therefore, by the divine appointment, this second
birth is introduced by water, which may extinguish the nature
-apart
Spirit may cast away the fear of the first birth, provided, however,
it so live for the time to come, that it do not at all seek
after any of the pleasures of this world, but be, as it were, a
pilgrim and a stranger and a citizen of another city.
Chapter VIII: Uses of Evils
necessity of creation demands the service of arts and works,
put what restraint he pleases either upon his desires or his