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СКАЧАТЬ Esdr 8:58 And said in their heart, that there is no God; yea, and that knowing they must die.

      2 Esdr 8:59 For as the things aforesaid shalt receive you, so thirst and pain are prepared for them: for it was not his will that men should come to nought:

      2 Esdr 8:60 But they which be created have defiled the name of him that made them, and were unthankful unto him which prepared life for them.

      2 Esdr 8:61 And therefore is my judgment now at hand.

      2 Esdr 8:62 These things have I not shewed unto all men, but unto thee, and 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 himself, so is his husbandry also: for it was the time of the world.

      2 Esdr 9:18 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.

      2 Esdr 9:19 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.

      2 Esdr 9:20 So I considered the world, and, behold, there was peril because of the devices that were come into it.

      2 Esdr 9:21 And I saw, and spared it greatly, and have kept me a grape of the cluster, and a plant of a great people.

      2 Esdr 9:22 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.

      2 Esdr 9:23 Nevertheless, if thou wilt cease yet seven days more, (but thou shalt not fast in them,

      2 Esdr 9:24 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;)

      2 Esdr 9:25 And pray unto the Highest continually, then will I come and talk with thee.

      2 Esdr 9:26 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.

      2 Esdr 9:27 After seven days I sat upon the grass, and my heart was vexed within me, like as before:

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      And I opened my mouth, and began to talk before the most High, and said,

      2 Esdr 9:29 O Lord, thou that shewest thyself unto us, thou wast shewed unto our fathers in the wilderness, in a place where no man treadeth, in a barren place, when they came out of Egypt.

      2 Esdr 9:30 And thou spakest saying, Hear me, O Israel; and mark my words, thou seed of Jacob.

      2 Esdr 9:31 For, behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring fruit in you, and ye shall be honoured in it for ever.

      2 Esdr 9:32 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;

      2 Esdr 9:33 Yet they that received it perished, because they kept not the thing that was sown in them.

      2 Esdr 9:34 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,

      2 Esdr 9:35 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.

      2 Esdr 9:36 For we that have received the law perish by sin, and our heart also which received it

      2 Esdr 9:37 Notwithstanding the law perisheth not, but remaineth in his force.

      2 Esdr 9:38 And when I spake these things in my heart, I looked back with mine eyes, and upon the right side I saw a woman, and, behold, she mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved in heart, and her clothes were rent, and she had ashes upon her head.

      2 Esdr 9:39 Then let I my thoughts go that I was in, and turned me unto her,

      2 Esdr 9:40 And said unto her, Wherefore weepest thou? why art thou so grieved in thy mind?

      2 Esdr 9:41 And she said unto me, Sir, let me alone, that I may bewail myself, and add unto my sorrow, for I am sore vexed in my mind, and brought very low.

      2 Esdr 9:42 And I said unto her, What aileth thee? tell me.

      2 Esdr 9:43 She said unto me, I thy servant have been barren, and had no child, though I had an husband thirty years,

      2 Esdr 9:44 And those thirty years I did nothing else day and night, and every hour, but make my, prayer to the Highest.

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