Book V - Snyder Bible

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Chapter LIV: Excitement in Antioch
And while he was thus speaking, one of those returned who
had gone before to Antioch, and said to Kefa: I wish you to
know, my master Kefa, that Simon at Antioch, doing many
signs and prodigies in public, has inculcated upon the people
nothing but what tends to excite hatred against you, calling
you a magician, a sorcerer, a murderer; and to such an extent
has he stirred up hatred against you, that they greatly desire,
if they can find you anywhere, even to devour your flesh. And
therefore we who were sent before, seeing the city greatly
moved against you, met together in secret, and considered
what ought to be done.
Chapter LV: A Stratagem
And when we saw no way of getting out of the difficulty,
there came Cornelius the centurion, being sent by Caesar to
the president of Caesarea on public business. Him we sent for
alone, and told him the reason why we were sorrowful, and
entreated him that, if he could do anything, he should help us.
Then he most readily promised that he would straightway put
him to flight, if only we would aid his plans. And when we
promised that we would be active in doing everything, he said,
Caesar has ordered sorcerers to be sought out and destroyed
in the city of Rome and through the provinces, and a great
number of them have been already destroyed. I shall therefore
give out, through my friends, that I am come to apprehend
that magician, and that I am sent by Caesar for this purpose,
that he may be punished with the rest of his fraternity. Let
your people, therefore, who are with him in disguise, intimate
to him, as if they had heard it from some quarter that I am sent
to apprehend him; and when he hears this, he is sure to take
to flight. Or if you think of anything better, tell me. Why need I
say more? It was so done by those of ours who were with him,
disguised for the purpose of acting as spies on him. And when
Simon learned that this was come upon him, he received the
information as a great kindness conferred upon him by them,