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And that there are laid up for us dwellings of health and safety, whereas we have lived wickedly?
And that the glory of the most High is kept to defend them which have led a wary life, whereas we have walked in the most wicked ways of all?
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?
And that the faces of them which have used abstinence shall shine above the stars, whereas our faces shall be blacker than darkness?
Then answered he me, and said, This is the condition of the battle, which man that is born upon the earth shall fight;
That, if he be overcome, he shall suffer as thou hast said: but if he get the victory, he shall receive the thing that I say.
For this is the life whereof Moses spake unto the people while he lived, saying, Choose thee life, that thou mayest live.
Nevertheless they believed not him, nor yet the prophets after him, no nor me which have spoken unto them,
That there should not be such heaviness in their destruction, as shall be joy over them that are persuaded to salvation.
I answered then, and said, I know, Lord, that the most High is called merciful, in that he hath mercy upon them which are not yet come into the world,
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,
There should be very few left peradventure in an innumerable multitude.
And he answered me, saying, The most High hath made this world for many, but the world to come for few.
I will tell thee a similitude, Esdras; As when thou askest the earth, it shall say unto thee, that it giveth much mould whereof earthen vessels are made, but little dust that gold cometh of: even so is the course of this present world.
There be many created, but few shall be saved.
O Lord, if thou suffer not thy servant, that we may pray before thee, and thou give us seed unto our heart, and culture to our understanding, that there may come fruit of it; how shall each man live that is corrupt, who beareth the place of a man?
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.
But that which keepeth and is kept shall both be preserved: and when the time cometh, the womb preserved delivereth up the things that grew in it.
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.
If therefore thou shalt destroy him which with so great labour was fashioned, it is an easy thing to be ordained by thy commandment, that the thing which was made might be preserved.
Now therefore, Lord, I will speak; touching man in general, thou knowest best; but touching thy people, for whose sake I am sorry;
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.
But I have heard the swiftness of the judge which is to come.
Therefore hear my voice, and understand my words, and I shall speak before thee. This is the beginning of the words of Esdras, before he was taken up: and I said,
O Lord, thou that dwellest in everlastingness which beholdest from above things in the heaven and in the air;
Whose throne is inestimable; whose glory may not be comprehended; before whom the hosts of angels stand with trembling,
Whose look drieth up the depths, and indignation maketh the mountains to melt away; which the truth witnesseth:
O hear the prayer of thy servant, and give ear to the petition of thy creature.
O look not upon the sins of thy people; but on them which serve thee in truth.
Regard not the wicked inventions of the heathen, but the desire of those that keep thy testimonies in afflictions.
Think not upon those that have walked feignedly before thee: but remember them, which according to thy will have known thy fear.
Let it not be thy will to destroy them which have lived like beasts; but to look upon them that have clearly taught thy law.
Take thou no indignation at them which are deemed worse than beasts; but love them that always put their trust in thy righteousness and glory.
For the just, which have many good works laid up with thee, shall out of their own deeds receive reward.
For in truth them is no man among them that be born, but he hath dealt wickedly; and among the faithful there is none which hath not done amiss.
For in this, O Lord, thy righteousness and thy goodness shall be declared, if thou be merciful unto them which have not the confidence of good works.
Then answered he me, and said, Some things hast thou spoken aright, and according unto thy words it shall be.
For indeed I will not think on the disposition of them which have sinned before death, before judgment, before destruction:
But I will rejoice over the disposition of the righteous, and I will remember also their pilgrimage, and the salvation, and the reward, that they shall have.
For as the husbandman soweth much seed upon the ground, and planteth many trees, and yet the thing that is sown good in his season cometh not up, neither doth all that is planted take root: even so is it of them that are sown in the world; they shall not all be saved.
I answered then and said, If I have found grace, let me speak.
Like as the husbandman’s seed perisheth, if it come not up, and receive not thy rain in due season; or if there come too much rain, and corrupt it:
Even so perisheth man also, which is formed with thy hands, and is called thine own image, because thou art like unto him, for whose sake thou hast made all things, and likened him unto the husbandman’s seed.
Then answered he me, and said, Things present are for the present, and things to cometh for such as be to come.
In this also thou art marvellous before the most High:
For many great miseries shall be done to them that in the latter time shall dwell in the world, because they have walked in great pride.
But understand thou for thyself, and seek out the glory for such as be like thee.
For unto you is paradise opened, the tree of life is planted, the time to come is prepared, plenteousness is made ready, a city is builded, and rest is allowed, yea, perfect goodness and wisdom.
Sorrows are passed, and in the end is shewed the treasure of immortality.
And therefore ask thou no more questions concerning the multitude of them that perish.
Moreover they have trodden down his righteous,
And said in their heart, that there is no God; yea, and that knowing they must die.
But they which be created have defiled the name of him that made them, and were unthankful unto him which prepared life for them.
And therefore is my judgment now at hand.
These things have I not shewed unto all men, but unto thee, and a few like thee. Then answered I and said,
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.
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,
Then shalt thou understand, that it is the very same time, wherein the Highest will begin to visit the world which he made.
Therefore when there shall be seen earthquakes and uproars of the people in the world:
Then shalt thou well understand, that the most High spake of those things from the days that were before thee, even from the beginning.
For like as all that is made in the world hath a beginning and an end, and the end is manifest:
Even so the times also of the Highest have plain beginnings in wonder and powerful works, and endings in effects and signs.
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.
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.
For such as in their life have received benefits, and have not known me;
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;
The same must know it after death by pain.
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.
Then answered I and said,
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:
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 ls himself, so is his husbandry also: for it was the time of the world.
And now when I prepared the world, which was not yet made, even for them to dwell in that now live, no man spake against me.
For then every one obeyed: but now the manners of them which are created in this world that is made are corrupted by a perpetual seed, and by a law which is unsearchable rid themselves.
So I considered the world, and, behold, there was peril because of the devices that were come into it.
Let the multitude perish then, which was born in vain; and let my grape be kept, and my plant; for with great labour have I made it perfect.
Nevertheless, if thou wilt cease yet seven days more, (but thou shalt not fast in them,
But go into a field of flowers, where no house is builded, and eat only the flowers of the field; taste no flesh, drink no wine, but eat flowers only;)
And pray unto the Highest continually, then will I come and talk with thee.
So I went my way into the field which is called Ardath, like as he commanded me; and there I sat among the flowers, and did eat of the herbs of the field, and the meat of the same satisfied me.
After seven days I sat upon the grass, and my heart was vexed within me, like as before:
And I opened my mouth, and began to talk before the most High, and said,
But our fathers, which received the law, kept it not, and observed not thy ordinances: and though the fruit of thy law did not perish, neither could it, for it was thine;
Yet they that received it perished, because they kept not the thing that was sown in them.
And, lo, it is a custom, when the ground hath received seed, or the sea a ship, or any vessel meat or drink, that, that being perished wherein it was sown or cast into,
That thing also which was sown, or cast therein, or received, doth perish, and remaineth not with us: but with us it hath not happened so.
For we that have received the law perish by sin, and our heart also which received it
Notwithstanding the law perisheth not, but remaineth in his force.