Neville gives a precise interval in this telling: the 'son' (David) is revealed a hundred and thirty-nine days after his own resurrection experience (passage 556161).
Date (happened)
6 December 1959
conclusion · probable
Why
dc1-agreement-20261004, pm-actor-551 (PM 8702)
Reasoning
All 2 claims agree on 1959-12-06: node:3956; passage:556161.
6 December 1959
estimated · probable · preferred
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 018)
Reasoning
139 days after the certain 1959-07-20 resurrection lands on 6 December 1959, matching the corpus's well-established David-revelation date (event 6885).
c. December 1959
estimated · doubtful
Why
The passage's own precise figure is a 139-day interval between the resurrection and the son's revealing, not an absolute date; see description_append.
Reasoning
Passage 556161 recounts the resurrection-to-David sequence as a completed experience by the time of the lecture. The lecture's own recorded delivery-claim reasoning states the David encounter is independently anchored elsewhere to December 6, 1959; taking the sequence's culmination ('here comes the son') as that moment gives a circa-December-1959 happening date. Day precision is not asserted because the referenced anchor event is not itself visible in this packet and its confidence cannot be checked, only inherited at a reduced level.
Told / reported
after 6 December 1959
bound · possible
Reasoning
The owning lecture's own delivery claim bounds its delivery to after 1959-12-06, on the reasoning that it recounts the David encounter as already completed and that encounter is anchored to that date. This is when Neville TOLD the sequence, capped at the same 'possible' ceiling as the source bound claim.
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 |
| 1959-12-06 [after/possible/bound] |
The Word of God |
So he has told us in the parable of the son who went into the vineyard, and they killed him, thinking, by killing him, we will now get the vineyard. And then came the father, and came the Lord himself: what would he do to those servants who killed his son, his only son? Well, that is the wonderful story: that son is David, and David, you’re told in Scripture, died, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. And the father comes to resurrect his son, but the father resurrects first — he has to raise up himself — then he raises up his son, and his son comes a hundred and thirty-nine days after… |
556161 |