Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 297
akened,
and he fell down in a swoon. But we his sons rushed to
him, and embraced and kissed him, fearing that we might not
be able to recall his spirit. And while these things were going
on, the people were confounded with very wonder.
Chapter XXXVI: New Revelations
But Kefa ordered us to rise from embracing our father, lest
we should kill him; and he himself, laying hold of his hand, and
lifting him up as from a deep sleep, and gradually reviving
him, began to set forth to him the whole true record: how his
brother had fallen in love with Matthidia, and how she, being
very modest, had been unwilling to inform her husband of his
the brothers, and bring disgrace upon the family; and how she
had wisely pretended a dream, by which she was ordered to
depart from the city with her twin sons, leaving the younger
one with his father; and how on their voyage they had suffered
shipwreck through the violence of a storm; and how, when
they were cast upon an island called Antaradus, Matthidia was
thrown by a wave upon a rock, but her twin children were
seized by pirates and carried to Caesarea, and there sold to a
Torah-observant woman, who treated them as sons, and
brought them up, and caused them to be educated as gentlemen;
and how the pirates had changed their names, and called
the one Niceta and the other Aquila; and how afterwards,
through common studies and acquaintanceship, they had adhered
to Simon; and how they had turned away from him
when they saw him to be a magician and a deceiver, and had
come to Zacchai; and how subsequently they had been associated
with himself; and how Clement also, setting out from
the city for the sake of learning the truth, had, through his acquaintance
with Bar-Naba, come to Caesarea. and had become
known to him, and had adhered to him, and how he had been
taught by him the faith of Yahshua; and also how he had found
and recognized his mother begging at Antaradus, and how the
whole island rejoiced at his recognition of her; and also con-