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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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