58:8
“Ardeshir touched the door. “We have followed the Light,” he said. “Now let us see whether we can recognize it without demanding that it look Persian.””
The Book of Diesel · Gospel Threshold Edition v4.5
What is history and what is fiction?
Open reconstructionThe chapter is literary theology rather than recoverable event history.
Historical anchor
Pādyāb is a Zoroastrian water ablution; Matthew does not describe the Magi performing it.
Fiction boundary
The ritual before entering the house is fictional theological foreshadowing.