Five near-severances of the line

Five documented near-severances of the line.

In plain words

Five times the text records the line coming close to being cut, and five times it holds. The promise is kept through free people who could have broken it at any link, not forced on actors reading a script.

The mechanism

PRESERVATION THROUGH FREE HANDS — the promise is not a script forced on the actors; it is kept across a thousand years of hands that could have cut it at any link and did not

How it was checked

• EvidenceT3 SCRIPTURE; Status: COMMITTED; a release
• Letter eraTHE LINE HELD THROUGH HELL Abraham to Solomon, c. 2000 to c. 930 BC
• SourcesSCRIPTURE — the narrative sequence