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Book of Simon

The Book of Simon, shorted in citation to just Simon, is the first book of the Canon, considered infallible scripture by Emuna. It was composed over the late 50s IB by Paul Simon (later Metropolitan of Berytus) in the service of Iban Acacias.   The opening chapter of the Book of Simon (Simon 1) is as follows:  
Now from our master it was given to us, that we make orderly an account of the sayings of our holy prophet, that the tongues of slanderers be silenced, and the gossiping of women be stilled. It happened in the days when Ymir XII was king in Tuundet, that in Berytus Acacius was preaching first, and he said, "Men of Berytus, hear me and fear! For the Lord Above Heaven hath revealed Himself to me as I was working in the field, and He saith, 'Son of Beorn, up! Go to Berytus and preach what I will give over to you, and then you will convert none save one, and he shall be thy disciple!' Now as I was puzzled by this, it was as if taken over by a spell, that I was walking to Berytus, and coming up here I was in the city. And the guard hath said, 'You shant pass except by payment of the toll.' Yea, I was in my field garment, and I had no purse, so I was perplexed. And at this time a merchant was walking into town, and he saw me at the gate, and he saith, 'Good man, have you need to enter town, yet are lackless?' And answering yes, he said, 'Then by my hand be thee entered, for my charity is lacking in me, and I have need to improve this day.' And he paid for my entry, and thus here I cometh!" And the crowd were scoffing, and many walked away. And there was one in the crowd who was listening, for the speaking was for him alone; his name being Iban. And Iban went up to Acacius, and saith, "Good teacher! For whose sake have you made this speaking?" And he said, "For you and for many, yea, it would seem for you. For there is one God, hidden and silent, who hath made the heavens and the world, and all Beorn and his sons the Antiquities." And Iban said, "What new teaching is this, that the Antiquities cometh of Beorn himself!" So Acacius said, "What I have said is nothing except it is true. If I have erred then I will be corrected by a god surely!" And the crowd were angry, for he had insulted Lailah the mistress of the city by saying she was the offspring of Beorn. And one of them said, "He has blasphemed, so let us take him to the elders and have him stoned!" And the crowd took Acacius before the elders, and when they were told what he had said, they sent him to be stoned outside the walls. And when they went to stone him, the stones were melting in their hands, and when they hit Acacius they were as snow melts. Acacius said to them, "Do you think the Lord is as foolish that His prophet would die by such means?" And they were angry, and thought to rush him, and when they had converged, it was so: that Acacius had slipped through them and returned to the gate of the city, and finding it open, entered again. And the elders of the city were frightful of Lailah's wrath, and so they said, "Let us call upon the god of our city, that he may end this prophet of our destruction." And they called upon Sadik in his temple, that he would destroy Acacius. And the god Sadik went up to Acacius where he was preaching, and he said, "Cease, or thou shalt surely die." But Acacius said, "I wilt die, and yet the time has not come. So thy threat is without weight, for it is less than air." And Sadik went up to kill him, and he was killed by the right hand of Acacius. And great fear came across the whole of Berytus. This was the death of Sadik, who was the god of Berytus before the Heliand came.
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