The reason for this is that they saw the world as a bridge erected from wood over a great river, and they were passing through it, leaving it. Have you ever seen anyone build a house on a wooden bridge? No, by God. Especially since he knew that the rain falls and that the river is magnified by the torrents that come and that the bridges are cut off. So whoever built on A bridge is only subject to damage. If the builders of the world had God revealed their insight so that they would see it as a bridge and see that the river on which it was built was a strong danger, they would not have built the palaces they built on it, for they did not have eyes to see with it. The world is a wooden bridge over a great, roaring river, and they would not have hearing. With it, they hear the words of the Messenger, who knows what God revealed to him: “The world is a bridge, so they did not act by faith, nor by vision and revelation. They attained understanding as God said about them, and they thoug