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For the first Adam bearing a wicked heart transgressed, and was overcome; and so be all they that are born of him.
When this was done many years, then they that inhabited the city forsook thee,
And in all things did even as Adam and all his generations had done: for they also had a wicked heart:
And yet their reward appeareth not, and their labour hath no fruit: for I have gone here and there through the heathen, and I see that they flow in wealth, and think not upon thy commandments.
He answered me, and said, I went into a forest into a plain, and the trees took counsel,
The thought of the wood was in vain, for the fire came and consumed it.
The thought of the floods of the sea came likewise to nought, for the sand stood up and stopped them.
For like as the ground is given unto the wood, and the sea to his floods: even so they that dwell upon the earth may understand nothing but that which is upon the earth: and he that dwelleth above the heavens may only understand the things that are above the height of the heavens.
For it was not my mind to be curious of the high things, but of such as pass by us daily, namely, wherefore Israel is given up as a reproach to the heathen, and for what cause the people whom thou hast loved is given over unto ungodly nations, and why the law of our forefathers is brought to nought, and the written covenants come to none effect,
Then answered he me, and said, The more thou searchest, the more thou shalt marvel; for the world hasteth fast to pass away,
And cannot comprehend the things that are promised to the righteous in time to come: for this world is full of unrighteousness and infirmities.
But as concerning the things whereof thou askest me, I will tell thee; for the evil is sown, but the destruction thereof is not yet come.
For the grain of evil seed hath been sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning, and how much ungodliness hath it brought up unto this time? and how much shall it yet bring forth until the time of threshing come?
And for our sakes peradventure it is that the floors of the righteous are not filled, because of the sins of them that dwell upon the earth.
What is past I know, but what is for to come I know not.
And even he shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
There shall be a confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruous women shall bring forth monsters:
And I said, Speak on, my Lord. Then said he unto me, Thou art sore troubled in mind for Israel’s sake: lovest thou that people better than he that made them?
And I said, No, Lord: but of very grief have I spoken: for my reins pain me every hour, while I labour to comprehend the way of the most High, and to seek out part of his judgment.
Open me the places that are closed, and bring me forth the winds that in them are shut up, shew me the image of a voice: and then I will declare to thee the thing that thou labourest to know.
As for me, I am unwise: how may I then speak of these things whereof thou askest me?
So I answered and said, Couldest thou not make those that have been made, and be now, and that are for to come, at once; that thou mightest shew thy judgment the sooner?
For like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.
And I asked, and said, Seeing thou hast now given me the way, I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom thou hast told me that she is young, draweth now nigh unto age.
Say unto her, Wherefore are unto they whom thou hast now brought forth like those that were before, but less of stature?
For Esau is the end of the world, and Jacob is the beginning of it that followeth.
And therefore when it speaketh be not afraid: for the word is of the end, and the foundation of the earth is understood.
And why? because the speech of these things trembleth and is moved: for it knoweth that the end of these things must be changed.
And the children of a year old shall speak with their voices, the women with child shall bring forth untimely children of three or four months old, and they shall live, and be raised up.
As for faith, it shall flourish, corruption shall be overcome, and the truth, which hath been so long without fruit, shall be declared.
For thy voice is heard before the most High: for the Mighty hath seen thy righteous dealing, he hath seen also thy chastity, which thou hast had ever since thy youth.
For my spirit was greatly set on fire, and my soul was in distress.
And then was the spirit, and darkness and silence were on every side; the sound of man’s voice was not yet formed.
Then commandedst thou a fair light to come forth of thy treasures, that thy work might appear.
For as soon as thy word went forth the work was made.
For immediately there was great and innumerable fruit, and many and divers pleasures for the taste, and flowers of unchangeable colour, and odours of wonderful smell: and this was done the third day.
Upon the fifth day thou saidst unto the seventh part, where the waters were gathered that it should bring forth living creatures, fowls and fishes: and so it came to pass.
And didst separate the one from the other: for the seventh part, namely, where the water was gathered together, might not hold them both.
Upon the sixth day thou gavest commandment unto the earth, that before thee it should bring forth beasts, cattle, and creeping things:
All this have I spoken before thee, O Lord, because thou madest the world for our sakes
If the world now be made for our sakes, why do we not possess an inheritance with the world? how long shall this endure?
If this city now were given unto a man for an inheritance, if he never shall pass the danger set before it, how shall he receive this inheritance?
Because for their sakes I made the world: and when Adam transgressed my statutes, then was decreed that now is done.
For the entrances of the elder world were wide and sure, and brought immortal fruit.
If then they that live labour not to enter these strait and vain things, they can never receive those that are laid up for them.
Nevertheless the righteous shall suffer strait things, and hope for wide: for they that have done wickedly have suffered the strait things, and yet shall not see the wide.
For there be many that perish in this life, because they despise the law of God that is set before them.
For God hath given strait commandment to such as came, what they should do to live, even as they came, and what they should observe to avoid punishment.
And therefore, Esdras, for the empty are empty things, and for the full are the full things.
For my son Jesus shall be revealed with those that be with him, and they that remain shall rejoice within four hundred years.
And the world shall be turned into the old silence seven days, like as in the former judgments: so that no man shall remain.
And the work shall follow, and the reward shall be shewed, and the good deeds shall be of force, and wicked deeds shall bear no rule.
Then said I, Abraham prayed first for the Sodomites, and Moses for the fathers that sinned in the wilderness:
And Jesus after him for Israel in the time of Achan:
And Samuel and David for the destruction: and Solomon for them that should come to the sanctuary:
And Helias for those that received rain; and for the dead, that he might live:
And Ezechias for the people in the time of Sennacherib: and many for many.
Even so now, seeing corruption is grown up, and wickedness increased, and the righteous have prayed for the ungodly: wherefore shall it not be so now also?
But the day of doom shall be the end of this time, and the beginning of the immortality for to come, wherein corruption is past,
For what profit is it for men now in this present time to live in heaviness, and after death to look for punishment?
O thou Adam, what hast thou done? for though it was thou that sinned, thou art not fallen alone, but we all that come of thee.
For what profit is it unto us, if there be promised us an immortal time, whereas we have done the works that bring death?
And that there are laid up for us dwellings of health and safety, whereas we have lived wickedly?
And that there should be shewed a paradise, whose fruit endureth for ever, wherein is security and medicine, since we shall not enter into it?
(For we have walked in unpleasant places.)
For while we lived and committed iniquity, we considered not that we should begin to suffer for it after death.
For this is the life whereof Moses spake unto the people while he lived, saying, Choose thee life, that thou mayest live.
And that he is bountiful, for he is ready to give where it needeth;
And that he is of great mercy, for he multiplieth more and more mercies to them that are present, and that are past, and also to them which are to come.
And he pardoneth; for if he did not so of his goodness, that they which have committed iniquities might be eased of them, the ten thousandth part of men should not remain living.
And being judge, if he should not forgive them that are cured with his word, and put out the multitude of contentions,
And he answered me, saying, The most High hath made this world for many, but the world to come for few.
For thou hast agreed to give ear, and art willing to prophesy: for thou hast no longer space than only to live.
For thou art alone, and we all one workmanship of thine hands, like as thou hast said.
For when the body is fashioned now in the mother’s womb, and thou givest it members, thy creature is preserved in fire and water, and nine months doth thy workmanship endure thy creature which is created in her.
For thou hast commanded out of the parts of the body, that is to say, out of the breasts, milk to be given, which is the fruit of the breasts,
That the thing which is fashioned may be nourished for a time, till thou disposest it to thy mercy.
Now therefore, Lord, I will speak; touching man in general, thou knowest best; but touching thy people, for whose sake I am sorry;
And for thine inheritance, for whose cause I mourn; and for Israel, for whom I am heavy; and for Jacob, for whose sake I am troubled;
Therefore will I begin to pray before thee for myself and for them: for I see the falls of us that dwell in the land.
For while I live I will speak, and so long as I have understanding I will answer.