d a few like thee. Then answered I and said,

2 Esdr 8:63
Behold, O Lord, now hast thou shewed me the multitude of the
wonders, which thou wilt begin to do in the last times: but at
what time, thou hast not shewed me.

2 Esdr 9:1
He answered me then, and said, Measure thou the time
diligently in itself: and when thou seest part of the signs
past, which I have told thee before,

2 Esdr 9:2
Then shalt thou understand, that it is the very same time,
wherein the Highest will begin to visit the world which he made.

2 Esdr 9:3
Therefore when there shall be seen earthquakes and uproars of
the people in the world:

2 Esdr 9:4
Then shalt thou well understand, that the most High spake of
those things from the days that were before thee, even from the
beginning.

2 Esdr 9:5
For like as all that is made in the world hath a beginning
and an end, and the end is manifest:

2 Esdr 9:6
Even so the times also of the Highest have plain beginnings
in wonder and powerful works, and endings in effects and signs.

2 Esdr 9:7
And every one that shall be saved, and shall be able to
escape by his works, and by faith, whereby ye have believed,

2 Esdr 9:8
Shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my
salvation in my land, and within my borders: for I have
sanctified them for me from the beginning.

2 Esdr 9:9
Then shall they be in pitiful case, which now have abused my
ways: and they that have cast them away despitefully shall dwell
in torments.

2 Esdr 9:10
For such as in their life have received benefits, and have
not known me;

2 Esdr 9:11
And they that have loathed my law, while they had yet liberty,
and, when as yet place of repentance was open unto them,
understood not, but despised it;

2 Esdr 9:12
The same must know it after death by pain.

2 Esdr 9:13
And therefore be thou not curious how the ungodly shall be
punished, and when: but enquire how the righteous shall be
saved, whose the world is, and for whom the world is created.

2 Esdr 9:14
Then answered I and said,

2 Esdr 9:15
I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also
hereafter, that there be many more of them which perish, than of
them which shall be saved:

2 Esdr 9:16
Like as a wave is greater than a drop.

2 Esdr 9:17
And he answered me, saying, Like as the field is, so is also
the seed; as the flowers be, such are the colours also; such as
the workman is, such also is the work; and as the husbandman is
himse