Book V - Snyder Bible

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Chapter XVI: Instruction Continued: the True Prophet Yahshua
is needed for the house filled
with the darkness of ignorance and the smoke of vices, is He,
we say, who is called the true Prophet, who alone can enlighten
the spirits of men, so that with their eyes they may plainly
see the way of safety. For otherwise it is impossible to get
knowledge of divine and eternal things, unless one learns of
that true Prophet; because, as you yourself stated a little while
ago, the belief of things, and the opinions of causes, are estimated
in proportion to the talents of their advocates: hence,
also, one and the same cause is now thought just, now unjust;
and what now seemed true, anon becomes false on the assertion
of another. For this reason, the credit of obedience and
piety demanded the presence of the true Prophet, that He
Himself might tell us respecting each particular, how the truth
stands, and might teach us how we are to believe concerning
each. And therefore, before all else, the credentials of the
prophet himself must be examined with all care; and when
you have once ascertained that he is a prophet, it behooves
you thenceforth to believe him in everything, and not further
to discuss the particulars which he teaches, but to hold the
things which he speaks as certain and sacred; which things,
although they seem to be received by faith, yet are believed on
the ground of the probation previously instituted. For when
once at the outset the truth of the prophet is established on
examination, the rest is to be heard and held on the ground of
the faith by which it is already established that he is a teacher
of truth. And as it is certain that all things which pertain to
divine knowledge ought to be held according to the rule of
truth, so it is beyond doubt that from none but Himself alone
Chapter XVII: Kefa Requests Him to Be His Attendant
Having thus spoken, he set forth to me so openly and so
clearly who that Prophet was and how He might be found, that
I seethed to have before my eyes, and to handle with my hand,