2 Esdras 4:48

2 Esdras 4:48 Context

⁴⁵Shew me then whether there be more to come than is past, or more past than is to come. ⁴⁶What is past I know, but what is for to come I know not. ⁴⁷And he said unto me, Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude unto thee. ⁴⁸So I stood, and saw, and, behold, an hot burning oven passed by before me: and it happened that when the flame was gone by I looked, and, behold, the smoke remained still. ⁴⁹After this there passed by before me a watery cloud, and sent down much rain with a storm; and when the stormy rain was past, the drops remained still. ⁵⁰Then said he unto me, Consider with thyself; as the rain is more than the drops, and as the fire is greater than the smoke; but the drops and the smoke remain behind: so the quantity which is past did more exceed. ⁵¹Then I prayed, and said, May I live, thinkest thou, until that time? or what shall happen in those days?

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