Spoke 18

Job, Matthew, 1 John

But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

Matthew 18.16

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

1 John 5.7

The fundamental principle of hermeneutics is reflected in this Matthew 18.16 which, when applied to the witness of Scripture, tells us that no fundamental doctrine is to rest on a single verse, but must be supported by at least two or three passages. This principle then lays the foundation for the significance of KeyLinks, which reveal how God designed the Bible so that Key sets of words and phrases are found geometrically integrated on individual Spokes and nowhere else. Some KeyLinks are particularly intriguing because they are double KeyLinks that simultaneously link structures that exist on entirely different scales. For example, searching all seven versions for all verses that contain the set (one, three, word) ^[Verify] yields exactly two verses in the KJV and NKJV (quoted at the head of the page), and but one or none in each of the others. We have therefore, this Spoke 18 KeyLink based on the content of 1 John 5.7, unique to the KJV text form:

	KeyLink: Three Who Bear Witness
	Matthew1 John

This is discussed at length in the Spoke 18 article Three Witnesses for 1 John 5.7.

But taking a closer look at this KeyLink shows that it exhibits the fractal property of self-similarity over scale, since the link is found on Spoke 18 of the Inner Cycle of Matthew. This means that we can view this KeyLink in two ways: 1) as a KeyLink between Bible Book 40 and Bible Book 62 on Spoke 18 or 2) as a KeyLink between the Chapter 18 of the Inner Cycle of Matthew and Book 62 on Spoke 18 of the Bible Wheel.

Using modular notation (to write 40 = 18 + 22 = 18₂) coupled with geometric notation (to write passages as geometric points) allows this self-similarity to be easily seen (for those of us who are mathematically inclined) as follows:

Matthew 18 = P_Bible(18₂, 18₁) = P_Matthew(18₁)

This equation simply shows two different ways to refer to Matthew 18. Using the first reveals the KeyLink between two books on Spoke 18: the Book of Matthew = P_Bible(18₂) and the Book of 1 John = P_Bible(18₃):

	KeyLink: Three Who Bear Witness
	PBible(182)PBible(183)

The second reveals the KeyLink between Matthew Chapter 18 = P_Matthew(18₁) and the Book of 1 John:

	KeyLink: Three Who Bear Witness
	PMatthew(181)PBible(183)

The change in subscript from "Matthew" on the left to "Bible" on the right registers the change in scale from Chapters of Matthew to Books of the Bible.