He mentions owning and using James Strong's biblical concordance to look up the word 'tree'.
Date (happened)
before 1961
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [550847] belong to telling lecture nids [1984]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1961 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1961 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 1963
bound · possible
Why
Corrects the phase4 L6a envelope on this event from before 1961 to before 1963.
Reasoning
Envelope recompute, arithmetic only. The phase4 L6a row on this event states its own rule: each telling lecture contributes MAX of its non-refuted delivery years, and the envelope is the MIN across telling lectures. Recomputed live over lecture nid(s) 1984 that row cites, MAX(non-refuted field_delivery_year) gives 1963, not the 1961 the row carries — the bound was below its own stated rule and therefore UNSAFE: it asserted the event did not happen in 2 year(s) where it may sit. Same premise, same evidence, no re-reading and no re-judgement; only the maximum was taken correctly. The L6a row stands beside this one (append-only). Ruling: #2235 delta 1, architect 378.
before 3 May 1963
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1963 to before 1963-05-03.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1984 (certain delivery 1963-05-03); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1963`, 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 1963-05-03 on nid 1984 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
Told / reported
3 May 1963
conclusion
Why
dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
Reasoning
1 claim, no conflict: 1963-05-03 (node:1984).
3 May 1963
estimated
Reasoning
Passage 550847 is Neville himself mentioning, in first person, that he owns and uses James Strong's Concordance to define the word 'tree'; this is the telling. The lecture containing it, nid 1984, is dated 1963-05-03 by its confirmed, doubly-stated byline date, which narrows (and does not contradict) the lecture's coarser Kennedy-era between-bound claim. The telling inherits that same exact/certain precision and confidence.
Sources
Source
- The Shaping of the Unbegotten ¶12 (if you have a concordance—I have James Strong’s Concordance; it’s an excellent biblical concordance—and the word tree is defined as “the spine, the backbone, the carpenter, the gallows.”)
1 tellings, oldest first. A date in brackets shows how it is known; "circa", "after" and "possible" dates are rough.
| Date |
Lecture or book |
Telling |
Passage |
| 1963-05-03 [exact/certain/final] |
The Shaping of the Unbegotten |
And so he takes man and he makes man into his image. Now we go back into the Book of Genesis and see what he’s done with man. A word is used in the book, it’s called the tree, the tree of life. The man in some strange way is expelled because he may eat of the tree of life before he’s prepared. Well, if you have a concordance—I have James Strong’s Concordance; it’s an excellent biblical concordance—and the word tree is defined as “the spine, the backbone, the carpenter, the gallows.” Who is hanging on the gallows? It’s called the gallows, this word called the tree. It’s the gallows; it’s the… |
550847 |