The Unfinished Enoch's Vision

Another way to read it

There are obvious objections, and I don't hold this reading with much confidence. What I would defend is narrower: that the text leaves room for it.（マカバイ記一 1:8）

1And Eleazar, an illustrious priest of the country, who had attained to length of days, and whose life had been adorned with virtue, caused the presbyters who were about him to cease to cry out to the holy God, and prayed thus:

マカバイ記三 6:1（Brenton 訳・七十人訳から（英語））

Another way to read it

Some people are consoled by this verse and others are wounded by it, often in the same room. The writer almost certainly did not anticipate that. It is left for readers to carry.（トマスによる幼児福音書 16:1）

11すると、彼らはわれわれに答えてこう言いました、『われわれは天地の神のしもべであって、年久しい昔に建てられた宮を、再び建てるのです。これはもと、イスラエルの大いなる王の建てあげたものですが、

エズラ記 5:11（口語訳（日本語））

In an ordinary week

A short detour. There is a passage elsewhere with the same shape though no direct connection, and setting them next to each other makes the writers' different concerns visible.（ヨハネによる福音書 1:36）

A short detour. There is a passage elsewhere with the same shape though no direct connection, and setting them next to each other makes the writers' different concerns visible.

• Written out of a failed attempt to explain this passage to a child.
• One verse, read slowly, with one word held up to the light.