Book V - Snyder Bible

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that the unfaithful may be distinguished from the faithful, and
the obedient from the disobedient, it has been permitted to
the wicked one to use those arts by which the affections of
every one towards the true Father may be proved. But if there
were in truth some strange Elohim, were it right to leave our
own Elohim, who created us, and who is our Father and our
Maker, a
wicked one is the cause of our sin, when this is done by permission
of Yahweh, that those may be proved and condemned
in the day of judgment, who, allured by greater promises, have
abandoned their duty towards their true Father and Creator;
while those who have kept the faith and the love of their own
Father, even with poverty, if so it has befallen, and with tribulation,
may enjoy heavenly gifts and immortal dignities in His
kingdom But we shall expound these things more carefully at
another time. Meantime I desire to know what Simon did after
Chapter XIX: Disputation Begun
found him out, having spoken to one another concerning his
crimes we left him, and came to Zacchai, telling him those
same things which we have now told to you. But he, receiving
us most kindly, and instructing us concerning the faith of our
Master Yahshua HaMoshiach, enrolled us in the number of the
you proceed to the disputation; for a great crowd, collected in
the court of the house, is awaiting you, in the midst of whom
when he heard this, ordering me to withdraw for the sake of
prayer (for I had not yet been washed from the sins which I
ren, let us
pray that Yahweh, for His unspeakable mercy through His Moshiach,
would help me going out on behalf of the salvation of