1
The enclosure became a sign of Yannes's resistance. Those who opposed him declared that he had built a wicked boundary and that death would enter the house he was trying to preserve.
2
The garden and its sacred precinct were tied to the religious power of the family, and Yannes continued to gather learned ishim beneath its trees.
3
He and Yambres spoke concerning the ordering of human life, and among their debates was the matter of marriage and sexual union.
4
Yannes argued according to his own wisdom, seeking purity through a rule devised by human reasoning rather than through obedience to the Creator.
5
Thus the book shows him not merely as a worker of signs but as an ish attempting to establish an entire order by his own knowledge.
6
Yet the signs surrounding his house increased.