Book V - Snyder Bible

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Chapter LXIV: A Competition in Lying
When Appion heard this, and those who were with him,
they raised a great howling, saying: Why have you done this?
Why did you not receive him? And when Athenodorus was
going to tell me that it was my father Faustinianus himself,
Appion prevented him, and said: We have learned from some
one that he has gone with Simon, and that at the entreaty of
Faustinianus himself, being unwilling to see his sons, because
they are Jews. When therefore we heard this, we came to inquire
after him here; but since he is not here, it appears that
he must have spoken truly who told us that he has gone with
Simon. This, therefore, we tell you. But I Clement, when I understood
the designs of Kefa, that he wished to make them
suppose that the old man would be required at their hands, so
that they might be afraid and flee away, I began to aid his design,
and said to Appion: Listen, dear Appion: what we believe
to be good, we wish to deliver to our father also; but if he
will not receive it, but rather, as you say, flees away through
abhorrence of usit may...be harsh to say sowe care nothing
about him. And when I had said this, they departed, cursing
my cruelty, and followed the track of Simon, as we learned
on the following day.
Chapter LXV: Success of the Plot
Meantime, while Kefa was daily, according to his custom,
teaching the people, and working many miracles and cures,
after ten days came one of our people from Antioch, sent by
my father, informing us how my father stood in public, accusing
Simon, whose face indeed he seemed to wear, and extolling
Kefa with unmeasured praises, and commending him to
all the people, and making them long for him, so that all were
changed by his speech, and longed to see him; and that many
had come to love Kefa so much, that they raged against my
father in his character of Simon, and thought of laying hands
on him, because he had done such wrong to Kefa! Wherefore,
said he, make haste, lest...he be murdered; for be sent