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Fragment 46

John at his birth looses Zachariah’s silence. For verily it softened not...

John1 at his birth looses Zachariah’s silence. For verily it softened not his Father, when voice proceeded forth from silence2: but as voice disbelieved chained his tongue, so manifested it gives freedom to his father to whom he was both promised and born. But voice and lamp are forerunner of Word and Light.

  1. s From a Ms. at Vienna. ↩

  2. t May this possibly refer to the voice of the Archangel Gabriel in the silence of ministering at the Altar of Incense, the rather as the next words seem to refer to this? ↩



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