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Chapter IX.
And still continuing a little confused, and not
taking care to see what was relevant to the matter, he expressed his
opinion that the Jews were induced by the incantations employed in
jugglery and sorcery (in consequence of which certain phantoms appear,
in obedience to the spells employed by the magicians) to bow down to
the angels in heaven, not observing that this was contrary to their
law, which said to them who practised such observances:
“Regard not them which have familiar spirits,4093
neither seek after wizards,4094
to be defiled by them: I am the
Lord your God.”4095
He ought, therefore, either not to
have at all attributed this practice to the Jews, seeing he has
observed that they keep their law, and has called them “those who
live according to their law;” or if he did attribute it, he ought
to have shown that the Jews did this in violation of their code.
But again, as they transgress their law who offer worship to those who
are said to appear to them who are involved in darkness and blinded by
sorcery, and who dream dreams, owing to obscure phantoms presenting
themselves; so also do they transgress the law who offer sacrifice to
sun, moon, and stars.4096
| 4096 The emendations of
Ruæus have been adopted in the translation, the text being
probably corrupt. Cf. Ruæus, in loc. | And there is
thus great inconsistency in the same individual saying that the Jews
are careful to keep their law by not bowing down to sun, and moon, and
stars, while they are not so careful to keep it in the matter of heaven
and the angels.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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