4 Now Joseph, Mary and their son were down in Egypt in Zoan, and John was with his mother in the Judean hills.
5 Elihu and Salome sent messengers in haste to find Elizabeth and John. They found them and they brought them to Zoan.
6 Now, Mary and Elizabeth were marveling much because of their deliverance.
7 Elihu said, It is not strange; there are no happenings; law governs all events.
8 From olden times it was ordained that you should be with us, and in this sacred school be taught.
9 Elihu and Salome took Mary and Elizabeth out to the sacred grove near by where they were wont to teach.
10 Elihu said to Mary and Elizabeth, You may esteem yourselves thrice blest, for you are chosen mothers of long promised sons,
11 Who are ordained to lay in solid rock a sure foundation stone on which the temple of the perfect man shall rest—a temple that shall never be destroyed.
12 We measure time by cycle ages, and the gate to every age we deem a mile stone in the journey of the race.
13 An age has passed; the gate unto another age flies open at the touch of time. This is the preparation age of soul, the kingdom of Immanuel, of God in man;