Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 333
and said to Kefa: If you permit me, I should like to go and salute
Appion and Anubion, for they are great friends of mine;
and it may be that I shall be able to persuade Anubion to dispute
with Clement on the subject of Genesis. Then Kefa said:
I consent; and I commend you, because you respect your
friends. But consider how all things occur to you according to
your wish by Elohim providence; for, behold, not only have
the objects of proper affection been restored to you by the appointment
of Elohim, but also the presence of your friends is
arranged for you. Then said my father: Truly I consider that
it is so as you say. And when he had said this, he went away
to Anubion.
Chapter LIII: A Transformation
But we, sitting with Kefa the whole night, asking questions,
and learning of him on many subjects, remained awake
through very delight in his teaching and the sweetness of his
words; and when it was daybreak, Kefa, looking at me and my
brothers, said: I wonder what has befallen your father. And
while he was speaking my father came in, and found Kefa
speaking to us about him. And when he had saluted he began
to apologize, and to explain the reason why he had remained
abroad. But we, looking at him, were horrified; for we saw on
him the face of Simon, yet we heard the voice of our father.
And when we shrank from him, and cursed him, my father was
astonished at our treating him so harshly and barbarously. Yet
Kefa was the only one who saw his natural countenance; and
he said to us: Why do you curse your father? And we, along
with our mother, answered him: He appears to us to be Simon,
though he has our fathers voice. Then Kefa: You indeed
know only his voice, which has not been changed by the
sorceries; but to me also his face, which to others appears
changed by Simons art, is known to be that of your father
Faustinianus. And looking at my father, he said: The cause of
the dismay of your wife and your sons is thisthe appearance
of your countenance does not seem to be as it was, but the face
of the detestable Simon appears in you.