Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 95
Greek authors, or from your own writings? Certainly you are
at liberty to speak from whatever writings you please, yet so
that you first show that they are prophetic; for so their author-
Chapter XXXIX: Argument for Polytheism
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of the Jews only. For it is manifest to all who take interest
in obedience, that this Torah is of universal authority, yet that
every one receives the understanding of this Torah according
to his own judgment. For it has so been written by Him who
created the world, that the faith of things is made to depend
upon it. Whence, whether any one wishes to bring forward
truth, or any one to bring forward falsehood, no assertion will
be received without this Torah. Inasmuch, therefore, as my
knowledge is most fully in accordance with Torah, I rightly
declared that there are many elohim, of whom one is more
eminent than the rest, and incomprehensible, even He who is
Elohim of elohim. But that there are many elohim, Torah itself
informs me. For, in the first place, it says this in the passage
where one in the figure of a serpent speaks to Chawa, the first
made man; and after they have tasted of the tree, Yahweh
A efore, it is manifest
that there were many elohim engaged in the making of man.
h alone led them, and there were no strange
are also many other testimonies which might be adduced from
Torah, not only obscure, but plain, by which it is taught that