Chapter 37.
Now Joseph1682
| 1682 One of the
mss. tells the story, not of Joseph, but of a
certain builder, a worker in wood. |
was a
carpenter, and used to make nothing else of
wood but
ox-yokes, and
ploughs, and implements of
husbandry, and wooden
beds. And it
came to pass that a certain young man ordered him to make for him a
couch six
cubits long. And
Joseph commanded his
servant1683
to
cut the
wood with an
iron saw,
according to the measure which he had sent. But he did not keep
to the prescribed measure, but made one piece of
wood shorter than the
other. And
Joseph was in perplexity, and began to consider what
he was to do about this. And when
Jesus saw him in this
state of
cogitation, seeing that it was a matter of impossibility to him, He
addresses him with words of
comfort, saying: Come, let us take
hold of the ends of the pieces of
wood, and let us put them together,
end to end, and let us fit them exactly to each other, and draw to us,
for we shall be able to make them equal. Then
Joseph did what he
was bid, for he knew that He could do whatever He wished. And
Joseph took hold of the ends of the pieces of
wood, and brought them
together against the wall next himself, and
Jesus took hold of the
other ends of the pieces of
wood, and drew the shorter piece to Him,
and made it of the same length as the longer one. And He said to
Joseph: Go and
work, and do what thou hast
promised to do.
And
Joseph did what he had
promised.
1684
| 1684 One of
themss. here inserts: And when Jesus was
with other children He repeatedly went up and sat down upon a balcony,
and many of them began to do likewise, and they fell down and broke
their legs and arms. And the Lord Jesus healed them
all. |
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