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Book V - Snyder Bible

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The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 295<br />

Chapter XXXII: Stubborn Facts<br />

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fully argued, my son; but I, as I said at first, am prevented by<br />

my own consciousness from according assent to all this incomparable<br />

statement of yours. For I know both my own Genesis<br />

and that of my wife, and I know that those things have<br />

been done which our Genesis prescribed to each of us; and I<br />

cannot now be withdrawn by words from those things which I<br />

have ascertained by facts and deeds. In short, since I perceive<br />

that you are excellently skilled in this sort of learning, hear the<br />

horoscope of my wife, and you shall find the configuration<br />

whose issue has occurred. For she had Mars with Venus above<br />

the centre, and the Moon setting in the houses of Mars and the<br />

confines of Saturn. Now this configuration leads women to be<br />

adulteresses, and to love their own slaves, and to end their<br />

days in foreign travel and in waters. And this has so come to<br />

pass. For she fell in love with her slave, and fearing at once<br />

danger and reproach, she fled with him, and going abroad,<br />

where she satisfied her love<br />

Chapter XXXIII: An Approaching Recognition<br />

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married to the slave, as indeed I had not even discovered that<br />

she loved him. But after she was gone, my brother gave me the<br />

whole story, telling me that first she had loved him, but he,<br />

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bed with the stain of incest. But she, being both afraid of me<br />

and unable to bear the terrible reproaches (and yet she should<br />

not be blamed for that to which her Genesis compelled her),<br />

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a vision, who ordered me to leave the city without delay with<br />

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that of my sons, I immediately sent away her and the children,

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