“This
shredded, burned and rubble-covered Bible came to me from the loving hands of a
fireman who knew that I was the record keeper of ground zero,” Mr. Meyerowitz
said in an e-mail from Italy, where he now lives.
“My
astonishment at seeing the page that the Bible was open to made me realize that
the Bible’s message survives throughout time,” he said, “and in every era we
interpret its teachings freshly, as the occasion demands.”
“Ye
have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on
thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.”
So many
chapters. So many verses. But these were the words — from Jesus’ Sermon on the
Mount, in the Gospel of Matthew — found permanently exposed at Ground Zero
after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The
pages of the Bible in which they were printed had fused to a chunk of steel as
the World Trade Center collapsed, to be found only months later.
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