Book V - Snyder Bible

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suppose that I am occupying you with words, being unmindful
of things, I shall now call to mind the things which were spoken,
in which the order of your discussion greatly helps me;
for the way in which the things that you said followed by consequence
upon one another, and were arranged in a balanced
manner, makes them easily recalled to memory by the lines of
their order. For the order of sayings is useful for remembering
them: for when you begin to follow them point by point in
succession, when anything is wanting, immediately the sense
seeks for it; and when it has found it, retains it, or at all events,
if it cannot discover it, there will be no reluctance to ask it of
the Master. But not to delay in granting what you demand of
me, I shall shortly rehearse what you delivered to me concerning
the definit
Chapter XXIV: Repetition Continued
that by which the first Will begotten from eternity consists;
and from the first Will proceeds a second Will. After these
came the world; and from the world came time: from this, the
multitude of men; from the multitude the election of the beloved,
from whose oneness of mind the peaceful kingdom of
Yahweh is constructed. But the rest, which ought to follow
these, you promised to tell me at another time. After this,
when you had explained about the creation of the world, you
intimated the de
and which He ordained as an eternal Torah to all; and how He
established two kingdomsI mean that of the present time
and that of the futureand appointed times to each, and decreed
that a day of judgment should be expected, which He
determined, in which a severance is to be made of things and
of spirits: so that the wicked indeed shall be consigned to
eternal fire for their sins; but those who have lived according
to the will of Yahweh the Creator, having received a blessing
for their good works, effulgent with brightest light, introduced