Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 309
said, the gentleness of your disposition invites and encourages
all to undertake the precepts of saving doctrine. This I never
saw before in any one else, but in you only, with whom there
is neither envy nor indignation. Or what do you think?
Chapter XIV: No Man Has Universal Knowledge
Then Kefa said: These things come not only from envy or
indignation; but sometimes there is bashfulness in some persons,
fearing that they may not be able to answer fully the
questions that may be proposed, and so they avoid the discovery
of their want of skill. But no one ought to be ashamed of
this, because there is no man who ought to profess that he
knows all things; for there is only One who knows all things,
even He who also made all things. For if our Master declared
that He knew not the day and the hour whose signs even He
foretold, and referred the whole to the Father, how shall we
account it disgraceful to confess that we are ignorant of some
things, since in this we have the example of our Master? But
this only we profess, that we know those things which we
have learned from the True Prophet; and that those things
have been delivered to us by the True Prophet, which He
judged to be sufficient for human knowledge.
Chapter XV: Clements Disclosure
Then I Clement went on to speak thus: At Tripolis, when
you were disputing against the Gentiles, my master Kefa, I
greatly wondered at you, that although you were instructed by
your father according to the fashion of the Hebrews and in
observances of your own {Torah and were never polluted by
the studies of Greek learning, you argued so magnificently and
so incomparably; and that you even touched upon some things
concerning the histories of the false elohim, which are usually
declaimed in the theatres. But as I perceived that their fables
and blasphemies are not so well known to you, I shall discourse
upon these in your hearing, repeating them from the
very beginning, if it please you. Then says Kefa: Say on; you
do well to assist my preaching. Then said I: I shall speak,