Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 335
and took to flight. He therefore departed from Antioch, and, as
we have heard, came hither with Athenodorus.
Chapter LVI: Simons Design in the Transformation
All we, therefore, who went before you, considered that in
the meantime you should not go up to Antioch, till we see if
the hatred of you which he has sown among the people be in
any degree lessened by his departure. When he who had
come from Antioch had imparted this information, Kefa, looking
to our father, said, Faustinianus, your countenance has
been transformed by Simon Magus, as is evident; for he, thinking
that he was being sought for by Caesar for punishment,
has fled in terror, and has placed his own countenance upon
you, so that you might be apprehended instead of him, and put
to death, that so he might cause sorrow to your sons. But my
father, when he heard this, crying out, said with tears: You
have judged rightly, O Kefa: for Anubion also, who is very
friendly with me, began to inform me in a certain mysterious
way of his plots; but to my detriment I did not believe him,
because I had done him no harm.
Chapter LVII: Great Grief
And when all of us, along with my father, were agitated
with sorrow and weeping, meantime Anubion came to us, intimating
to us that Simon had fled during the night, making for
Judaea. But seeing our father lamenting and bewailing himself,
and saying, Wretch that I am, not to believe when I heard that
he is a magician! What has befallen wretched me, that on one
day, being recognized by my wife and my sons, I have not been
able to rejoice with them, but have been rolled back to the
former miseries which I endured in my wandering! But my
mother, tearing her disheveled hair, bewailed much more bitterly,
we also, confounded at the change of our fathers countenance,
were, as it were, thunderstruck and beside ourselves,
and could not understand what was the matter. But Anubion,
seeing us all thus afflicted, stood like one dumb. Then Kefa,
looking at us his sons, said: Believe me that this is your very