1 of wind, or call back for me the day that is past.”
6I answered and said, “Who of those that have been born can do that, that you should ask me about such things?”
7 of paradise?’
8 And how can one who is already worn out by the corrupt world understand incorruption?” When I heard this, I fell on my face
12 for the sand stood firm and blocked it.
18If now you were a judge between them, which would you undertake to justify and which to condemn?”
19 above the heavens can understand what is above the height of the heavens.”
The New Age Will Make All Things Clear22Then I answered and said, “I implore you, my lord, why have I been endowed with the power of understanding?
23 and we are not worthy to obtain mercy.
25 name that is invoked over us? It is about these things that I have asked.”
26 you will often marvel, because the age is hurrying swiftly to its end.
27 When will these things be? Why are our years few and evil?”
34 but the Highest is in a hurry on behalf of many.
35 And when will the harvest of our reward come?’
36 is completed, for he has weighed the age in the balance,
37Wis 11.20and measured the times by measure, and numbered the times by number, and he will not move or arouse them until that measure is fulfilled.’ ”
38 2 Esd 7.17 Then I answered and said, “But, O sovereign Lord, all of us also are full of ungodliness.
39It is perhaps on account of us that the time of threshing is delayed for the righteous—on account of the sins of those who inhabit the earth.”
40He answered me and said, “Go and ask a pregnant woman whether, when her nine months have been completed, her womb can keep the fetus within her any longer.”
41 v 35 ; 2 Esd 5.9, 37; 7.32And I said, “No, lord, it cannot.”
He said to me, “In Hades the chambers of the souls are like the womb.
42For just as a woman who is in labor makes haste to escape the pangs of birth, so also do these places hasten to give back those things who were committed to them from the beginning.
43Then the things that you desire to see will be disclosed to you.”
How Much Time Remains?44 2 Esd 5.56; 6.11; 8.42; 12.7 I answered and said, “If I have found favor in your sight, and if it is possible, and if I am worthy,
45v 50show me this also: whether more time is to come than has passed or whether for us the greater part has gone by.
46For I know what has gone by, but I do not know what is to come.”
47And he said to me, “Stand at my right side, and I will show you the interpretation of a parable.”
48So I stood and looked, and a flaming furnace passed by before me, and when the flame had gone by I looked, and the smoke remained.
49And after this a cloud full of water passed before me and poured down a heavy and violent rain, and when the violent rainstorm had passed, drops still remained in it.
50 v 45 ; 2 Esd 14.11, 12He said to me, “Consider it for yourself, for just as the rain is more than the drops and the fire is greater than the smoke, so the quantity that passed was far greater, but drops and smoke remained.”
51Then I prayed and said, “Do you think that I shall live until those days? Or who will be alive in those days?”
52 2 Esd 5.1, 13; 6.12; 7.26; 8.63 He answered me and said, “Concerning the signs about which you ask me, I can tell you in part, but I was not sent to tell you concerning your life, for I do not know.
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