I stopped here in the middle of a read-through, and wrote from the stopping.
Let me set the terms. This is not an argument about doctrinal correctness. It is one reader's account of what the text can be made to yield. I am going to leave the ending open on purpose.
How you render this one word determines the meaning of the whole paragraph. A translator has to decide, and the decision is already an interpretation. Readers deserve to know that a decision was made.（ヨハネの第一の手紙 2:23-27）
Reading the non-canonical material alongside this shows how wide the shared vocabulary of the period really was. Looking only at what was eventually collected hides that width entirely.
Now set it back into its own century. What was the community that first heard this actually worried about? Simply imagining that changes the temperature of every line.
A word about ordinary life. I think about this passage in the kitchen and on the train, almost never in a pew. I have come to suspect that is not accidental.（ゼパニヤ書 2:14）
Pull a single verse out of its paragraph and you can make it say almost anything. This particular verse has been made to say a great deal. Which is precisely why it deserves to be read with what stands on either side of it.
16どうか、このような人々と、またすべて彼らと共に働き共に労する人々とに、従ってほしい。
17わたしは、ステパナとポルトナトとアカイコとがきてくれたのを喜んでいる。彼らはあなたがたの足りない所を満たし、
コリント人への第一の手紙 16:16-17（口語訳（日本語））
Finally, back to the text. No amount of commentary competes with the texture of the sentences themselves. Read it out loud once before you read anything else about it.
Finally, back to the text. No amount of commentary competes with the texture of the sentences themselves. Read it out loud once before you read anything else about it.（列王紀下 11:10）
The first time I read this passage I understood nothing at all. I carried that incomprehension around for years, and then one afternoon it turned slightly, the way a key turns, and something opened. What follows is an attempt to describe the turn.
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.
1And she cared for her child through the months. When she was two years old, Joachim said, “Let's take her to the Temple of the Lord, so that we may keep the promise we made, so that the Lord won't be angry with us and find our gift unacceptable.” But Anna said, “Let's wait until her third year, so that she won't seek her father or mother.” And Joachim said, “Let's wait.”
2And the child became three years old, and Joachim said, “Let's call the pure daughters of the Hebrews. And let them take their lamps, and let them be lit, so that the child won't turn back, and her heart won't be drawn away from the Temple of the Lord.” And they did so until they went up to the Temple of the Lord. And the priest welcomed her, kissed her, and said, “The Lord God has magnified your name among all the generations. Through you, the Lord will reveal his redemption of the people of Israel in the last days.”
3And he sat her down on the third step of the altar, and the Lord God poured grace upon her. And she danced on her feet, and all the house of Israel loved her.
ヤコブによる幼児福音書 7:1-3（Mattison 訳（英語））
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