The perception of time remains subject indeed to the first - mentioned, most
obvious kind of explanation to the extent either that one is dealing with limited, unknown aspects of it, or that one loses one's feel for time, so that its perception can no longer rank as what is best known.
That it offers a plausible
explanation of the two features
of the teaching is
obvious; and yet it falls short
of being altogether convincing, chiefly because the manner
of much
of Jesus» most characteristic teaching is at the opposite pole from what one would expect to be the manner
of a prophet giving a
kind of desperate counsel for a moment
of crisis.