Quiet in Holy Week

Anticipating the objection

I went through several scholarly treatments and found nothing decisive. On reflection, the absence of anything decisive may be the most appropriate result this passage could produce.

66Wherefore when the enemies of the tribe of Juda and Benjamin heard it, they came to know what the noise of trumpets should mean.

エズラ記（ギリシア語） 5:66（Brenton 訳・七十人訳から（英語））

This is where I stopped. I could not go forward, so I stayed with the same few lines for a long time. I have come to think the staying was the point.（ペテロの福音書 11:17）

11And yet, though there were so many circumstances connected with love of children to draw on a mother to sympathy, in the case of none of them were the various tortures able to pervert her principle.

12But she inclined each one separately and all together to death for religion.

13O holy nature and parental feeling, and reward of bringing up children, and unconquerable maternal affection!

マカバイ記四 15:11-13（Brenton 訳・七十人訳から（英語））

Another way to read it

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.（トビト記 8:17-21）

30Howbeit for both causes shall they be justly punished: both because they thought not well of God, giving heed unto idols, and also unjustly swore in deceit, despising holiness.

知恵の書 14:30（Brenton 訳・七十人訳から（英語））

参照先を確認できませんでした: [[notabook 1:1]] 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.