2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 118
8 : E Z R A ’ S
A P P E A L S
31 For we and our fathers do
languish of such diseases; but
because of us sinners, you
Are sick.
shall be called merciful.
32 For if you have a desire
to have mercy upon us, you
shall be called merciful, to us
namely, that have no works of
Be willing. righteousness.
33 For the just which have
many good works laid up with
you, shall out of their own
deeds receive reward.
34 For what is man that you
should take displeasure at
him? Or what is a corruptible
generation, that you should be
so bitter toward it?
35 For in truth there is no man
among them that be born,
but he has dealt wickedly,
Cf. and among the faithful, there
Rom. 3:23;
1 Ki. 8:46; is none which has not done
2 Chr. 6:36.
amiss.
36 For in this, O Yahuah,
your righteousness, and your
goodness shall be declared,
if you be merciful unto them
Or, which have not the confidence
substance.
of good works.
Response to Ezra’s Prayer
37 Then he answered me, and
said, Some things have you
spoken aright, and according
unto your words it shall be.
38 For indeed I will not think
on the disposition of them
which have sinned before
death, before judgment, before
F O R
M E R C Y
destruction.
39 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
Cf. Gn. 4:4.
have.
40 Like as I have spoken now,
so shall it come to pass.
41 For as the husbandman
sows much seed upon the
ground, and plants many
trees, and yet the thing that
is sown good in his season,
comes not up, neither does all
that is planted take root: even
so is it of them that are sown
in the world, they shall not all
be saved.
42 I then answered, and said,
If I have found grace, let me
speak.
43 Like as the husbandman’s
seed perishes, if it come not
up, and receive not the rain in
due season, or if there come
too much rain and corrupt it:
44 Even so perish man also
which is formed with your
hands, and is called your
own image, because you are
like unto him, for whose sake
you have made all things,
and likened him unto the
husbandman’s seed.
45 Be not wroth with us,
but spare your people, and
have mercy upon your own
inheritance: for you are
merciful unto your creature.
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