2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 116
8 : E Z R A ’ S
A P P E A L S
CHAPTER 8:
1 Many created, but few saved. 6
He asks why Elohim destroys his
own work, 26 and pray Elohim to
look upon the people which only
serve him. 41 Elohim answers that
all seed comes not to Elohim, 52
and that glory is prepared for him
and such like.
1 And he answered me,
saying, The Most High
Mt. 20:16. hath made this world for
Messiah
quoted 2 many, but the world to
Esdras.
come for few.
2 I will tell you a similitude,
Ezra, As when you ask the
earth, it shall say unto you, that
it gives much mold whereof
earthen vessels are made, but
little dust that gold comes of:
even so is the course of this
present world.
Ezra Again Appeals to Yah’s Mercy
Mt. 20:16.
Messiah
quoted 2
Esdras.
3 There be many created,
but few shall be saved.
4 So I answered and said,
Swallow then down O my
soul, understanding, and
devour wisdom.
5 For you have agreed to
give ear, and are willing to
prophesy: for you have no
longer space then only to live.
6 O Yahuah, if you suffer
not your servant that we may
pray before you, and you give
us seed unto our heart, and
culture to our understanding,
F O R
M E R C Y
that there may come fruit of
it, how shall each man live
that is corrupt, who bears the Or, to give
us.
place of a man?
7 For you are alone, and we
all one workmanship of your
hands, like as you have said.
8 For when the body is
fashioned now in the mother’s
womb, and you give it
members, your creature is
preserved in fire and water,
and nine months does your
workmanship endure your
Or, how is
creature which is created in the body
fashioned.
her.
9 But that which keeps, and is
kept, shall both be preserved:
and when the time comes, the
womb preserved, delivers up
the things that grew in it.
10 For you have 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,
11 That the thing which is
fashioned, may be nourished
for a time, til you dispose it to
your mercy.
12 You brought it up with your
righteousness, and nurtured it
in your Law, and reformed it
with your judgment.
13 And you shall mortify it as
your creature, and quicken it Cf.
Rom 8:11.
as your work.
14 If therefore you shall
destroy him which with so
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