Book V - Snyder Bible

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father; wherefore also I charge you that you respect him as
your father. For Elohim will afford some opportunity on which
he shall be able to put off the countenance of Simon, and to
recover the manifest figure of your fatherthat is, his own.
Chapter LVIII: How It All Came About
Then, turning to my father, he said: I gave you leave to salute
Appion and Anubion, who, you said, were your friends
from boyhood, but not that you should speak with Simon.
Then my father said: I confess I have sinned. Then said Anubion:
I also with him beg and entreat of you to pardon the old
mangood and noble man as he is. It is sad that he
was...seduced and imposed upon by the magician in question;
for I will tell you how the thing was done. When he came to
salute us, it seemed by coincidence that at that very time we
were standing around him, hearing him tell that he intended
to flee away that night, for that he had heard that some persons
had come even to this city of Laodike to apprehend him
by command of the emperor, but that he wished to turn all
their rage against this Faustinianus, who has lately come hither.
And he said to us: Only you make him sup with us, and I
shall compound a certain ointment, with which, when he has
supped, he shall anoint his face, and from that time he shall
seem to all to have my countenance. But you first anoint your
faces with the juice of a certain herb, that you may not be deceived
as to the change of his countenance, so that to all except
you he shall seem to be Simon.
Chapter LIX: A Scene of Mourning
And wheAnd what advantage
will you gain from this deed? Then Simon said: In the first
place, that those who are seeking me may lay hold on him, and
so give over the search for me. But if he be punished by Caesar,
that his sons may have much sorrow, who forsook me, and
fled to Kefa, and are now his assistants. Now I confess to you,
Kefa, what is true. I did not dare then tell Faustinianus; but
neither did Simon give us opportunity of speaking with him in