Book V - Snyder Bible

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though they are mortal, and can only speak by opinion concerning
invisible things, or concerning the origin of the world,
since they were not present when it was made, or concerning
the end of it, or concerning the treatment and judgment of spirits
in the infernal regions, forgetting that it belongs indeed to
a Reasonable Man to know things present and visible, but that
it is the part of prophetic foreknowledge alone to know things
past, and things future, and things invisible? These things,
therefore, are not to be gathered from conjectures and opinions,
in which men are greatly deceived, but from faith in
prophetic truth, as this doctrine of ours is. For we speak nothing
of ourselves, nor announce things gathered by human
judgment; for this were to deceive our hearers. But we preach
the things which have been committed and revealed to us by
the True Prophet, Yahshua. And concerning His prophetic foreknowledge
and power, if any one, as I have said, wishes to
receive clear proofs, let him come instantly and be alert to
hear, and we shall give evident proofs by which he shall seem
not only to hear the power of prophetic foreknowledge with
his ears, but even to see it with his eyes and handle it with his
hand; and when he has entertained a sure faith concerning
Him, he will without any labor take upon him the yoke of righteousness
and obedience; and so great sweetness will he
perceive in it, that not only will he not find fault with any labor
being in it, but will even desire something further to be added
and imposed upon him.
Chapter LII: Appion and Anubion
And when he had said this, and more to the same purpose,
and had cured some who were present who were infirm and
possessed of demons, he dismissed the crowds, while they
gave thanks and praised Yahweh Elohim, charging them to
come to the same place on the following days also for the sake
of hearing. And when we were together at home, and were
preparing to eat, one entering told us that Appion Pleistonices,
with Anubion, were lately come from Antioch, and were lodging
with Simon. Then my father, when he heard this, rejoiced,