Neville tells how he stumbled upon the Law rather than the Promise, was blinded by having been taught that Jesus was the Son, and how the day David stood before him was like memory returning; the fact dissolved the fixed idea and he had to go out and tell it as he experienced it.
Date (happened)
6 December 1959
unresolved
before 1970
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [541812] belong to telling lecture nids [1517]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1970 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1970 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 7 July 1970
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1970 to before 1970-07-07.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1517 (certain delivery 1970-07-07); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1970`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1970-07-07 on nid 1517 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
6 December 1959
estimated · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 028)
Reasoning
Passage 541812: 'The day that David stood before me, it was just like memory returning.' David appeared to Neville on 6 December 1959 (chronology 6885, 7558, 16718). The event also covers his earlier stumbling on the Law, so the date fits only its culminating day.
Sources
Source
- The Morning Star ¶49 (Then I stumbled upon the Law, not the Promise. The day that David stood before me, it was just like memory returning.)