There are those passages in the Book of Antecedents--

这里那些前者之书中的片段
remember the Jewish book of memory that the Trachimbroders write over time--

那是特拉奇边界写的犹太的记忆之书
some of those entries are prophetic.

其中有一些是预言性的
They tell the future,

他们讲述了未来
and we're given

我们看到了
an excerpt from that book that describes the disaster,

从那本描述灾难的末世书中引用的段落
and so we know that

从这里我们知道
something like prescience is a quality of Jewish writing,

先见语言是犹太文学的一个特点
imagined in this way as a kind of religious practice.

不如把它看做是一种宗教行为
So, either we can understand Jonathan as carrying on that tradition,

要么我们认为乔纳森是在继续这个传统
that what he writes in his diary is similarly proleptic,

他在日记里写的也是这种预言
it looks towards the future and transcribes the future,

它看向未来并抄写了未来