R. reads a lot of Gfrörer; the seven-day silence before the judgment in the books of the Jewish mystics makes a great impression on him.
Image: … as the world was created in seven days, so it ends with seven days of silence. That the beginning of that world is to be understood as the founding of a new heaven (and a new earth) is clear from the Book of Enoch, Chapter 92, 16, 17: “On the seventh day of the tenth week an eternal judgment shall take place, which shall be passed upon the watchers; a spacious, eternal heaven shall then emerge from the midst of the angels. The previous heaven shall fade away and pass away, a new heaven shall appear.”
Gfrörer, The History of Early Christianity
I teach the children and pay some visits. R. attends to business matters. Very bad weather, wind and snow flurries. In the evening Mr Glatz is voiceless. (Much distress due to the older children.)
Revised English translation by Jo Cousins.