The Apocalypse of Abraham · Restored Names Edition · first paragraph
1When I, Abraham, however, heard such words from my father, I laughed in my mind and sighed in the grief and in the anger of my soul, and said: "How then can that which is made by him — manufactured statues — be a helper of my father?
2Or shall the body then be subject to its soul, and the soul to the spirit, and the spirit to folly and ignorance?"
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