White Space in Peter's Denial

Following the context

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.

• A direct look at the part of this text that rarely gets preached.
• An attempt to read a famous passage all the way through without lifting it out of context.
• A direct look at the part of this text that rarely gets preached.
• One verse, read slowly, with one word held up to the light.

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.

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.（列王紀上 6:15-19）

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.

（アダムとエバの生涯 第15章）

One word that snags

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.

21義の道を心得ていながら、自分に授けられた聖なる戒めにそむくよりは、むしろ義の道を知らなかった方がよい。

ペテロの第二の手紙 2:21（口語訳（日本語））

参照先を確認できませんでした: [[notabook 1:1]] 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.