Book V - Snyder Bible

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the proper time two things: first this exposition, at once simple
and entirely free from error; and then an exposition of
each individual point as it may be evolved in the course of the
various questions which shall be raised. And after this you expounded
the sequence of things in order from the beginning of
the world, even to the present time; and if you please, I can
Chapter XXVI: Friendship of Yahweh; How Secured
ement,
that I commit my words to so safe a heart; for to be
mindful of the things that are spoken is an indication of having
in readiness the faith of works. But he from whom the wicked
demon steals away the words of salvation, and snatches them
away from his memory, cannot be saved, even though he wish
it; for he loses the way by which life is reached. Wherefore let
us the rather repeat what has been spoken, and confirm it in
your heart, that is, in what manner or by whom the world was
made, that we may proceed to the friendship of the Creator.
But His friendship is secured by living well, and by obeying
His will; which will is Torah of all that live. We shall therefore
unfold these things briefly to you, in order that they may be
the more surely remembered.
Chapter XXVII: Account of the Creation
the earth, as one house, the shadow which was cast by the
mundane bodies involved in darkness those things which
were enclosed in it. But when the will of Yahweh had introduced
light, that darkness which had been caused by the shadows
of bodies was straightway dispelled: then at length light
is appointed for the day, darkness for the night. And now the
water which was within the world, in the middle space of that
first heaven and earth, congealed as if with frost, and solid as
crystal, is distended, and the middle spaces of the heaven and
earth are separated as by a firmament of this sort; and that