Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 89
with the eternal blessings of righteousness, in order that they
might bear poverty patiently, and not be led by it to undertake
any unrighteous work. In like manner also, He said that the
pure in heart are blessed, and that thereby they should see
Yahweh, in order that every one desiring so great a good
Chapter XXIX: Peace and Strife
atience,
impressed upon them that the blessing of peace was
also to be preserved with the labor of patience. But, on the
other hand, He mourned over those who lived in riches and
luxury, who bestowed nothing upon the poor; proving that
they must render an account, because they did not pity their
neighbors, even when they were in poverty, whom they ought
to love as themselves. And by such sayings as these He
brought some indeed to obey Him, but others He rendered
hostile. The believers therefore, and the obedient, He charges
are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the very sons of
y did not believe, but set
themselves in opposition to His doctrine, He proclaims the
you shall see son separated from father, and husband from
wife, and daughter from mother, and brother from brother,
and daughter-in-law from mother-in-
begins to be a difference betwixt believer and unbeliever,
there is necessarily a contest: the unbelievers, on the one
hand, fighting against the faith; and the believers on the other,
Chapter XXX: Peace to the Sons of Peace
He wages war against the sophrim and Prushim, charging
them with evil deeds and unsound doctrine, and with hiding
the key of knowledge which they had handed down to them