Book V - Snyder Bible

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wisely foreseen that you may be contradicted; and you have
even politely confessed, that for the assertion of these things
countless thousands of words will be called forth, for no one
agrees with the profession of your faith. In short, as to there
being one Yahweh, and the world being His work, who can
receive this doctrine? Neither, I think, any one of the Pagans,
even if he be an unlearned man, and certainly no one of the
philosophers; but not even the rudest and most wretched of
the Jews, nor I myself, who am well acquainted with their To-
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makes me reluctant to do so, that if I say what is neither
acceptable to you, nor seems right to this unskilled rabble, you
indeed, as confounded, will straightway shut your ears, that
they may not he polluted with blasphemy, forsooth, and will
take to flight because you cannot find an answer; while the
unreasoning populace will assent to you, and embrace you as
one teaching those things which are commonly received
among them; and will curse me, as professing things new and
unheard of, and instilling my error into the minds of others
you accused us of doing, because you have no truth to bring
forward? For if you have, begin without circumlocution, if you
have so much confidence. And if, indeed, what you say be displeasing
to any one of the hearers, he will withdraw; and those
who remain shall be compelled by your assertion to approve
what is true. Begin, therefore, to expound what seems to you
many elohim;
but that there is one incomprehensible and unknown to
ehensible
and unknown to all, can you prove His existence from
the Scriptures of the Jews, which are held to be of authority, or
from some others of which we are all ignorant, or from the