By your hands are patriarchs anointed, and presidents of the sanhedrin take office according to your words; ye set up exilarchs, and the judges of cities are appointed by your authority. The order of society shall go forth from you, and none shall differ therefrom. A great war was waged with Me and My servants, as accuser appeared the greatest of the ministering angels. This is his plea:
‘Let not this secret go forth from Thy storehouse, and mystery of prudence from Thy treasuries; let not flesh and blood as our equals, suppose not the children of men our substitute. Let them grow weary in the study of the Law as much as they wish, and let those who come from their descendants, and after, fulfill it with labor and great anguish. This is thy glory, this is thy beauty. In the midst of their rejoicing they bethink themselves and pray to Thee, they cry out before Thee whole-heartedly, they beseech Thee with desirous soul: “May that which we have read remain in our possession, may that which we have studied remain in our possession, may our inward parts grasp all that which our ears have heard, may our hearts hold firmly the ways of the teaching which we have heard from the mouth of the teacher.” And let them continue to honour one another. But if Thou revealest this secret to Thy children, “the small will be as the great and the fool as the wise.”’”