Talk:Beyond A Wish/@comment-98.209.130.120-20171009000750/@comment-30480779-20171010124801

I would agree. "Saki" (先) can be used to refer to either the immediate past (先に) or the point immediately in front of something that you are behind of (__の先). "Before" would be 前, which is either a point in the (not immediate) past (前に) or the point before some other thing (__の前). I'm oversimplifying, but the difference is not really ambiguous in Japanese.