Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 337
private and disclosing to him fully Simons design. Meantime,
about the middle of the night, Simon has fled away, making for
Judaea. And Athenodorus and Appion have gone to convoy
him; but I pretended bodily indisposition, that I might remain
at home, and make him return quickly to you, if...he may in any
way be concealed with you, lest, being seized by those who are
in quest of Simon, he be brought before Caesar, and perish
without cause. And now, in my anxiety about him, I have come
to see him, and to return before those who have gone to convoy
Simon come back. And turning to us, Anubion said: I,
Anubion, indeed see the true countenance of your father, because
I was previously anointed by Simon himself, as I have
told you, that the real face of Faustinianus might appear to my
eyes; whence I am astonished and wonder at the art of Simon
Magus, because you standing here do not recognize your father.
And while my father and mother, and all of us, wept for
the things which had befallen, Anubion, moved with compassion,
also wept.
Chapter LX: A Counterplot
Then Kefa, moved with compassion, promised that he
would restore the face of our father, saying to him: Listen,
Faustinianus: As soon as the error of your transformed countenance
shall have conferred some advantage on us, and shall
have subserved the designs which we have in view, then I
shall restore to you the true form of your countenance; on
condition, however, that you first dispatch what I shall command
you. And when my father promised that he would with
all his might fulfill everything that he might charge him with,
provided only that he might recover his own countenance, Kefa
thus began: You have heard with your own ears, that one of
those who had been sent before has returned from Antioch,
and told us how Simon, while he was there, stirred up the multitudes
against me, and inflamed the whole city into hatred of
me, declaring that I am a magician, and a murderer, and a deceiver,
so that they are eager, if they see me, even to eat my
flesh. Do therefore what I tell you: leave Clement with me, and