2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 176
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she might be reconciled to
him again.
32 O you men, how can it be
but women should be strong,
seeing they do thus?
The Speech about Truth
33 Then the king and the
princes looked one upon
another: so he began to speak
of the truth.
34 O you men, are not women
strong? great is the earth, high
is the heaven, swift is the Sun
in his course, for he compasses
the heavens round about, and
fetches his course again to his
own place in one day.
35 Is he not great that makes
these things? Therefore great
is the truth, and stronger than
all things.
36 All the earth calls upon
the truth, and the heaven
blesses it, all works shake and
Or, praises
the truth. tremble at it, and with it is no
Athanas.
unrighteous thing.
37 Wine is wicked, the king
is wicked, women are wicked,
all the children of men are
wicked, and such are all their
wicked works, and there is
no truth in them. In their
unrighteousness also they
shall perish.
38 As for the truth it endures,
and is always strong, it lives
and conquers for evermore.
C O N S T R U C T I O N
39 With her there is no
accepting of persons, or
rewards, but she does the
things that are just, and
refrains from all unjust and
wicked things, and all men do
well like of her works.
40 Neither in her judgment
is any unrighteousness, and
she is the strength, kingdom,
power and majesty of all ages.
Blessed be the Elohim of
truth.
41 And with that he held his
peace, and all the people then
shouted and said, Great is
truth, and mighty above all
things.
Zerubbabel’s Reward
42 Then said the king unto
him, Ask what you will, more
than is appointed in the
writing, and we will give it to
you, because you are found
wisest, and you shall sit next
to me, and shall be called my
cousin.
43 Then he said unto the
king, Remember your vow
which you have vowed to build
Yerusalem in the day when
you came to the kingdom,
44 And to send away all the
vessels that were taken away
out of Yerusalem, which Cyrus
set apart, when he vowed to
destroy Babylon, and to send Or, counsel.
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