Book V - Snyder Bible

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as elohim; I shall have divine honors publicly assigned to me,
so that an image of me shall be set up, and I shall be worshipped
and adored as elohim. And what need of more words?
Whatever I wish, that I shall be able to do. For already I have
reap, and I saw a sickle lying, I ordered it to go and reap; and it
reaped ten times more than the others. Lately, I produced
many new sprouts from the earth, and made them bear leaves
and produce fruit in a moment; and the nearest mountain I
successfully
Chapter X: Simon Magus: His Deception
the perforation of the mountain, I was confounded on this account,
because he wished to deceive even us, in whom he
seemed to place confidence; for we knew that those things bad
been from the days of our fathers, which he represented as
having been done by himself lately. We then, although we
heard these atrocities from him, and worse than these, yet we
followed up his crimes, and suffered others to be deceived by
him, telling also many lies on his behalf; and this before he did
any of the things which he had promised, so that while as yet
he had done noth
Chapter XI: Simon Magus, at the Head of the Sect of Dositheus
among the thirty talmidim of Dositheus, he began to depreciate
Dositheus himself, saying that he did not teach purely or
perfectly, and that this was the result not of ill intention, but of
ignorance. But Dositheus, when he perceived that Simon was
depreciating him, fearing lest his reputation among men might
be obscured (for he himself was supposed to be the Standing
One), moved with rage, when they met as usual at the school,
seized a rod, and began to beat Simon; hut suddenly the rod
seemed to pass through his body, as if it had been smoke. On