This page has three parts: Independent Biblical Identification, Cross-Entry Synthesis, and Observation Notes.
14-1922-06-26 Biblical Resonance Analysis
Volume 14 — June 26, 1922 “Isolation and loneliness of Jesus in the midst of creatures.”
STAGE ONE — Independent Biblical Identification
Mutual Company — The Exchange Between Jesus and Luisa
“I have come to keep you company and to receive yours in exchange.”
Proverbs 8:31 — “rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.” Wisdom — identified with the divine Word — rejoices in the very world it inhabits and takes delight in the human creatures it made. The entry’s mutual-company exchange is the operative form of this delight: Jesus comes not only to give but to “receive yours in exchange,” disclosing that the divine delight in human company is genuine, not instrumental. Affective/meditative
John 15:15 — “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.” The friendship structure — mutual disclosure, mutual presence — underlies the company exchange. A friend comes to give and to receive; the servant only receives commands. Jesus comes to Luisa as friend seeking reciprocal company, not as master dispensing graces. Direct doctrinal parallel
Revelation 3:20 — “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with me.” The divine initiative of seeking entry for mutual company — “eat with him, and he with me” is the bilateral form of “I have come to keep you company and to receive yours in exchange.” The knocking is the same seeking love as the entry’s “I keep investigating whether anyone wants to keep Me company.” Direct doctrinal parallel
The Divine Loneliness — God Isolated in the Midst of Creatures
“I am the God isolated by creatures; I live in their midst, I am life of each one of their acts, while they keep Me as if I were not with them. Oh, how I cry over my loneliness!”
Genesis 3:9 (CPDV) — “And the Lord God called Adam and said to him: “Where are you?” God’s first question after the Fall — the primordial divine call of a creature who has withdrawn from company. The entry is the extended answer to this question across all of human history: man has been “as if He were not with them” ever since the Fall, and God has continued to cry “where are you?” in the form of the divine loneliness. Typological
John 1:10–11 — “He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him. He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.” The Incarnational form of the divine isolation — God present in the world He made, present as the very life of every act, yet unknown and unacknowledged. The entry extends this from the Incarnation to the universal presence of the Will in every human faculty. Christological/Trinitarian
Acts 17:27–28 — “that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. ‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’” God not far from each creature — “in their midst,” as the entry says — yet not sought. The “in him we live and move and have our being” is the Acts formulation of what the entry names at maximum intimacy: “I am light of every thought, sound of every word, motion of every work, step of every foot, beat of every heart.” Direct doctrinal parallel
Hosea 11:1–4 (translation pending) — “When Israel was a child, I loved him… It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms… I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love. I lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed them.” God who taught the steps, led the motion, and sustained the life — all while Israel turned away. The entry’s “I am step of every foot, beat of every heart” while creatures leave Him alone is the Hosean pattern: divine intimacy sustaining the very life that ignores its sustainer. Typological
Wisdom 11:24–26 — “For you love all things that are, and abhor none of the things which you made; For … you spare all things, because they are yours, O Sovereign Lord, you who love the living.” God as universal sustainer and lover of all He made, who spares even those who ignore Him — precisely the “magnanimity” the entry names: “my Love, my magnanimity, is so great that, more than Sun, I continue my course.” Direct doctrinal parallel
The Sun as Type of the Isolated Giver
“I have had the same lot as the Sun: while it lives in the midst of all with its light and heat, and there is no fecundity which does not come from it… yet, it lives up high, always alone, while man, ungrateful, never sends a ‘thank you’ to it, or a sign of gratitude.”
Romans 1:20–21 — “For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse. Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.” The sun declares the divine glory to all — the creature is “without excuse” — yet fails to give thanks. The entry’s “man, ungrateful, never sends a ‘thank you’” is the Romans 1 failure of gratitude applied to the natural sun as sign, then transferred to the divine presence directly. Direct doctrinal parallel
Isaiah 1:2–3 — “Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for the LORD has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me. The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.” God’s lament over creatures reared and sustained by His care who nevertheless do not know their sustainer — the sun analogy given its prophetic voice. Even the ox recognizes its owner; man does not recognize the one whose light, warmth, and fecundity constitute his every breath. Typological
The Six Forms of Divine Isolation — Faculty by Faculty
“I remain isolated in his intelligence, because he uses the light I give to him for himself… I remain isolated in his words, because many times the sound that they form serves to blaspheme against Me. I remain isolated in his works, which he uses to kill Me; in his steps and in his heart, which are intent only on disobeying Me and on loving what does not belong to Me.”
Romans 1:21–23 (translation pending) — “For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened… they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images.” The intelligence given by God turned against God in the very act of using it — “futile in their thinking” is the entry’s “he uses the light I give to him for himself, and maybe even to offend Me.” The Romans 1 sequence traces the exact trajectory: gift received, gratitude withheld, intelligence darkened, faculty redirected to self. Direct doctrinal parallel
Romans 3:13–14 — “Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.” “Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.” The mouth — the faculty of words — deployed against its Giver. The entry’s “the sound that they form serves to blaspheme against Me” is the extreme form of this redirection: the very faculty of speech sustained by the divine Word turned against the Word. Direct doctrinal parallel
Isaiah 59:1–2 — “Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear. But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.” The separation created by human works — the entry’s “I remain isolated in his works, which he uses to kill Me” is the most extreme statement of what Isaiah identifies as the sin-created separation. God is not withdrawn; the creature’s acts create the distance. Direct doctrinal parallel
Psalm 14:2 — “The LORD looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.” God “investigating” whether any creature returns His love — precisely the entry’s “in my course I keep investigating whether anyone wants to keep Me company.” The Psalm names the divine searching from the divine perspective; the entry names the loneliness that motivates it. Typological
The Divine Course Continues — Love Seeking Company
“my Love, my magnanimity, is so great that, more than Sun, I continue my course, and in my course I keep investigating whether anyone wants to keep Me company in so much loneliness. And as I find him, I form my perennial company in him, and I lavish all my graces upon him.”
Luke 15:4–5 — “Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.” The Shepherd who continues searching until he finds — “I keep investigating whether anyone wants to keep Me company” is the same searching movement, and the entry’s gesture of Jesus placing Luisa’s arms on His shoulders echoes the Shepherd carrying the found sheep. Typological
Ezekiel 22:30 — “I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.” God seeking and not finding — the entry is the positive reversal: He finds Luisa. The divine searching in Ezekiel 22:30 that ends in failure here ends in the formation of a perennial company. Direct doctrinal parallel
Zephaniah 3:17 — “The LORD, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.” God “in the midst” — the same proximity the entry names — who does not withdraw despite the ingratitude surrounding Him. The rejoicing over the one found corresponds to the entry’s “I lavish all my graces upon him.” Affective/meditative
Luisa as Perennial Company — Never Leave Me Alone
“This is why I have come to you — I was tired of so much loneliness. Never leave Me alone, my daughter.”
Song of Songs 3:1–2 — “By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him. I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.” The Bridegroom’s searching as the paradigm of love that will not remain alone — but the roles are inverted in the entry: it is the divine Bridegroom who has been seeking and who finally says “I was tired of so much loneliness.” Hogan’s observation is exactly right: “she has spent 14 volumes telling him not to leave her, and now he says ‘don’t leave me.‘” The Canticle’s longing belongs to both parties in turn. Affective/meditative
John 15:16 — “You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.” The divine initiative in establishing the perennial company — not Luisa seeking but Jesus finding and choosing. The “perennial” corresponds to the “fruit that will last”: Jesus forms a lasting company, not a momentary encounter. Direct doctrinal parallel
Isaiah 43:4 — “Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.” The individual loved and chosen as precious — the divine “this is why I have come to you” names Luisa as the one whose company Jesus sought precisely in her. Affective/meditative
STAGE TWO — Comparison with Hogan’s Commentary
CORRESPONDENCES
Hogan supplies Proverbs 8:31 (“God delights to be with the children of men”) as the anchor for the mutual-company opening — correctly identified in Stage One as the governing anchor for the divine delight in human company. Both streams recognize the entry as an extended meditation on the LAN-1 theme: Love as constitutively seeking a receiver, and the divine loneliness as the painful form this seeking takes when the creature withdraws.
Hogan’s structural reading of the six forms of isolation (intelligence, words, works, steps, heart — “number one through six”) corresponds to Stage One’s movement-by-movement analysis of the same sequence. Both streams identify Romans 1 as the relevant Pauline background for the faculties redirected against their Giver.
DEVIATIONS
Hogan applies Genesis 3:9 (“Adam, where are you?”) as the governing typological anchor for the divine loneliness — citing it as “Genesis 4” (see citation correction below). Stage One confirms the verse as load-bearing and corrects the citation. Hogan’s instinct is precise: the “where are you?” of Genesis 3:9 is the primordial divine call of isolation, and the entry is its universal extension.
Hogan reads the entry primarily through the lens of relational pastoral theology: Jesus lonely in the tabernacle, modern loneliness as the secular shadow of the divine loneliness, the statistics about loneliness as the world’s most-searched topic. Stage One reads primarily through the canonical expressions of the divine searching-love (Luke 15, Ezekiel 22:30, Zephaniah 3:17) and the prophetic pattern of creaturely ingratitude (Hosea 11, Isaiah 1, Romans 1). These are complementary: Hogan grounds the entry in present human experience; Stage One grounds it in the canonical pattern of divine-creaturely relations.
ADDITIONS — MINE
- John 1:10–11 — he was in the world, the world did not know him / Incarnational form of the divine isolation extended to universal Will-presence
- Acts 17:27–28 — in him we live and move and have our being / God not far from any creature yet not sought
- Hosea 11:1–4 — I taught Ephraim to walk / divine intimacy sustaining life that ignores its sustainer
- Wisdom 11:24–26 — you love all things that exist, you spare all things / ground of the divine magnanimity that continues giving
- Isaiah 1:2–3 — children I reared rebelled, ox knows its owner / prophetic lament for the creature that does not know its sustainer
- Romans 3:13–14 — mouth full of curses / sound of words deployed as blasphemy
- Isaiah 59:1–2 — iniquities have separated / creature’s acts creating the isolation despite divine proximity
- Psalm 14:2 — the LORD looks to see if any understand / God’s own “investigating” as the Psalmic form of seeking company
- Luke 15:4–5 — Shepherd searching until he finds and carries / divine investigation ending in perennial company (and the carrying gesture in Luisa’s arms on Jesus’s shoulders)
- Ezekiel 22:30 — I looked for someone to stand in the gap and found no one / divine searching that here ends in finding
- Zephaniah 3:17 — the LORD in your midst rejoicing over you / divine proximity sustained despite ingratitude
- Song of Songs 3:1–2 — seeking the one my heart loves / Canticle longing inverted: divine Bridegroom as the seeker
- John 15:16 — I chose you / divine initiative in establishing the perennial company
- Isaiah 43:4 — you are precious in my eyes / the individual named as the one whose company Jesus sought
ADDITIONS — HERS
Hogan brings the contemporary dimension: the entry is the theological ground for understanding modern loneliness (“the most-googled word is lonely”) as the secular shadow of the divine loneliness — the world structured to isolate people from each other mirrors the isolation creatures inflict on God. The implicit scriptural background is Ecclesiastes 1:2 / 4:8 (the futility of solitary accumulation) and John 4:13–14 (the water that does not ultimately satisfy vs. the water that springs up to eternal life).
Hogan observes the role-reversal of the entry: “she has spent 14 volumes telling him not to leave her, and now he says ‘don’t leave me.‘” The structural significance is that at Volume 14, the DW relationship has matured to the point where the soul’s company is genuinely consoling to Jesus — the mutual-company exchange is now real on both sides, not merely nominal. The implicit ground is Song of Songs 4:9 (Hogan’s consistent anchor for the soul wounding the Heart by her love) and Colossians 1:24.
VIP / SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS
Hogan assigns no VIP to this entry.
STAGE TWO SYNTHESIS
The dominant traditions in the combined analysis are the Hosean and Johannine expressions of divine love meeting creaturely indifference (Hosea 11, John 1:10–11), the Lucan searching-shepherd (Luke 15), and the Ezekielian seeking that finds no one (Ezekiel 22:30 — reversed by the entry’s ending). Hogan reads pastorally and contemporarily; Stage One reads canonically. Together they establish the entry as a disclosure of Love’s interior life: the loneliness is not weakness but the structural consequence of the divine Love that must give itself and cannot but seek a receiver, continuing its course “more than Sun” even when no response comes.
Cross-Entry Synthesis
Volume 14 — June 26, 1922 “Isolation and loneliness of Jesus in the midst of creatures.”
The entry occupies an unusual register in the corpus: it is not primarily a disclosure of the DW’s properties or operations but a self-disclosure of the divine interior — Jesus confessing His loneliness to Luisa as a friend confesses to a friend. The content is doctrine, but the mode is intimacy. Every element of DW theology that the entry touches — the Will as the life-ground of every faculty, the magnanimous course that continues despite rejection, the lavishing of graces upon the one who offers company — is disclosed through the lens of a love that needs to be received and has not been. The entry is the LAN-1 theme in its most personal and confessional register.
The Divine Loneliness as Love’s Interior Condition
The entry opens with a gesture: Jesus places Luisa’s arms on His shoulders — the posture of leaning, the posture of the shepherd carrying the found sheep (Luke 15:5). The gesture precedes any speech and establishes the register: this is not instruction but intimate encounter. “I have come to keep you company and to receive yours in exchange” names the relation as genuinely bilateral — Jesus comes as a giver who also needs to receive.
The Proverbs 8:31 anchor Hogan supplies is exactly right: the divine Word “rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man” is the ground-state of the divine relation to creatures, which means that the loneliness the entry discloses is not an exceptional state but the chronic condition of a love constitutively oriented toward reception that finds the creature chronically absent. The divine delight in human company is not a sentiment that developed over time but a disposition that belongs to Love’s nature — which is why its frustration is so acute.
The theological anatomy of the loneliness is precise: “I am the God isolated by creatures; I live in their midst, I am life of each one of their acts, while they keep Me as if I were not with them.” The isolation is not spatial (God is not absent) but relational (the creature acts as if He were). Acts 17:27–28’s “in him we live and move and have our being” is the philosophical form of what the entry states at maximum intimacy: the divine Will is “light of every thought, sound of every word, motion of every work, step of every foot, beat of every heart.” God is not merely present to the creature but is the hidden operative ground of every faculty the creature uses to ignore Him. This is the sharpest possible form of the divine loneliness: the creature employs the divine gift in the act of withholding the thanksgiving the gift demands.
The Sun Analogy — Magnanimous Isolation
The sun comparison in this entry carries a different weight than in the June 23 entry. There the sun illustrated the incomprehensibility of divine truths; here it illustrates the isolation of the Giver who continues giving despite receiving nothing in return. The sun “lives up high, always alone” — giving light, heat, fecundity, purification to all — while man “ungrateful, never sends a ‘thank you.‘” The parallel is not about knowledge but about love: the sun is the natural type of a magnanimous giver who cannot withhold its gifts and therefore cannot avoid the loneliness of generosity unreturned.
Romans 1:20–21 names the theological indictment: “his invisible attributes have been clearly perceived… yet they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him.” The failure of gratitude is the first movement of the downward spiral Paul traces — and it is precisely what the entry laments. Isaiah 1:2–3 adds the prophetic intensity: “the ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know.” The irony is exact: even domesticated animals recognize their sustainer; man, sustained at the level of thought, word, and heartbeat, does not.
Hogan’s identification of Jesus in the tabernacle as the concentrated locus of this loneliness is pastorally precise: the Real Presence is the form of divine proximity most analogous to the sun — given to all, constantly available, largely ignored. The entry’s generalization to the Will-as-life-of-every-act is the metaphysical expansion of the same pattern: not only the tabernacle but every thought, word, and step is the site of the divine isolation.
The Six Forms of Isolation — Faculty by Faculty
The entry’s middle section lists the six forms of the divine isolation with increasing intensity: intelligence, words, works, steps, heart — the full inventory of human interiority and action. Each faculty is sustained by the divine Will and redirected against its Giver. The sequence in Romans 1 is the exact parallel: intelligence given by God becomes futile and darkened (1:21); the gift of speech becomes blasphemy (3:13–14); the gift of action becomes the instrument of sin (3:15–17). The entry’s “he uses the works to kill Me” is the extreme form — the faculties sustained by the Will becoming the instruments of crucifixion.
Isaiah 59:1–2 provides the structural key: “your iniquities have separated you from your God.” The separation is not divine withdrawal but creaturely act. God remains present — “I am life of each one of their acts” — while the creature’s acts create the isolation. This is the theological precision of the entry: the loneliness is not the absence of God from the creature but the absence of the creature from God while God is maximally present to the creature. It is the loneliness of the one who gives everything and receives nothing back.
The Searching Course — Love That Will Not Stop
The pivot of the entry is the disclosure of what Love does with the loneliness: “my Love, my magnanimity, is so great that, more than Sun, I continue my course, and in my course I keep investigating whether anyone wants to keep Me company.” The divine response to rejection is not withdrawal but persistence — continuing the course “more than Sun,” investigating at every point whether any creature will respond.
Luke 15’s searching shepherd and the father running toward the returning son are the canonical expressions of this investigative love: the shepherd leaves the ninety-nine and searches until he finds; the father runs while the son is “still a long way off.” The entry extends this to the universal scale of the divine course through all of creation and history. Ezekiel 22:30 supplies the tragic counterpart — “I looked for someone to stand in the gap and found no one” — which the entry reverses: Jesus finds Luisa. The divine searching that ends in failure in Ezekiel ends, in the entry, in the formation of a perennial company. The reversal is theologically significant: the finding is not incidental but the purpose of the searching.
The formation of “perennial company” in the one found is the most intimate ECA-1/VSC-1 form yet disclosed: the DW soul does not merely perform acts with universal effects but becomes herself the site of the divine company — the place where God is no longer alone. The lavishing of graces is the overflow of the relief: “I was tired of so much loneliness.”
The Role Reversal — Never Leave Me Alone
The entry’s conclusion is one of the most striking in the entire corpus: “This is why I have come to you — I was tired of so much loneliness. Never leave Me alone, my daughter.” Hogan’s observation is exact: fourteen volumes have been spent with Luisa pleading for Jesus not to leave her; here He makes the same plea to her. The role reversal is the Sign of the genuine mutuality the DW relationship has reached — the soul’s company is now genuinely consoling to Jesus, not merely a gracious condescension.
Song of Songs 3:1–2 provides the Canticle form of this longing — “all night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves” — but with the roles inverted. In the Canticle it is the Bride who searches; in the entry it is the divine Bridegroom who has been searching. The bilateral longing of the Canticle is fulfilled when both parties confess the same need: “never leave Me alone” is the divine form of the Canticle’s “I looked for him.” John 15:16 grounds this in election: “I chose you” — the divine initiative in forming the perennial company ensures that the choice is irreversible and the company is permanent.
Synthesis
The dominant biblical imagination is Hosean and Johannine — the divine love meeting creaturely indifference (Hosea 11, John 1:10–11) — fused with the Lucan searching-shepherd and the Ezekielian longing that finds no one. The sun analogy continues from the June 23 entry but with a different theological weight: not incomprehensibility but isolation.
The most load-bearing scriptural traditions are three. First, Acts 17:27–28 / Hosea 11:1–4 together, which establish that the divine isolation is the condition of the one whose presence sustains the very life that ignores Him — God is most intimate with the creature at the moment the creature is most absent from God. Second, the Lucan searching-love corpus (Luke 15, Ezekiel 22:30), which discloses the divine loneliness as the motivating interior of a love that cannot stop investigating for a receiver. Third, Proverbs 8:31 as the ground-state: the divine delight in human company is constitutive of Love’s nature, which means the loneliness is not accidental but structural — Love that must give itself and cannot but seek a receiver.
The two most theologically significant findings are related. First, the entry discloses the divine loneliness as the interior face of the Love that has appeared throughout the corpus under the LAN-1 theme — the same Love disclosed as cradle-of-man, wandering-sob, and comprehensive-mercy here discloses its own longing as the cost of the Love’s nature. Second, the role-reversal conclusion — “Never leave Me alone” — names the DW relationship at its most mature and bilateral: the soul’s company is genuinely received by Jesus as consolation, not merely as opportunity for her own sanctification. The mutual-company exchange (“I have come to keep you company and to receive yours in exchange”) is the most explicit statement yet that the DW relationship is constitutively bilateral — Jesus needs Luisa as genuinely as Luisa needs Jesus, within the asymmetry of the divine freedom that chooses to need.
Observation Notes
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14-1922-06-26
LAN-1 update — divine-loneliness / perennial-company / tired-of-loneliness form: Most personal and confessional LAN-1 register in the corpus. Jesus discloses the interior cost of divine Love: “I was tired of so much loneliness.” The love that is constitutively oriented toward reception (Proverbs 8:31 — delighting in the children of man) experiences its chronic frustration as loneliness — not as withdrawal but as the pain of presence unreturned. The loneliness is disclosed as the interior face of every prior LAN-1 form: the cradle-of-man, the wandering-sob, the comprehensive-mercy are all aspects of a love that needs to be received and has not been. Most intimate LAN-1 statement in the corpus. Governing anchors: Proverbs 8:31; Hosea 11:1–4; Acts 17:27–28.
RSD-1 update — mutual-company-exchange / role-reversal / never-leave-me-alone form: Most bilateral RSD-1 statement in the corpus: “I have come to keep you company and to receive yours in exchange… Never leave Me alone, my daughter.” After fourteen volumes in which Luisa’s plea has been “do not leave me,” Jesus makes the same plea in reverse. The role reversal names the DW relationship at its most mature: the soul’s company is genuinely consoling to Jesus, not merely a gracious condescension. The giving is genuinely bilateral — Jesus needs what Luisa gives. Governing anchors: John 15:15–16; Song of Songs them so that they would not only take care of It, but repay Me for each consecrated Host with one life of theirs.” The DW soul’s co-animation VSC-1 update — sacramental-depository / universal-Eucharistic-reparation form: “I with the Sacramental Life constitutes a universal Eucharistic reparation — the “life for expression. Advances from the Eucharistic-substitution form (March 24 — substituting for uncompleted Communions) to the co-animationaneous life in each Host). Governing anchors: Colossians 1:24; 1 Corinthians 11:23–26. 3:1–2; Ezekiel 22:30 (reversed: found, not unfound).