2 Esdras 8:54

2 Esdras 8:54 Context

⁵¹But understand thou for thyself, and seek out the glory for such as be like thee. ⁵²For unto you is paradise opened, the tree of life is planted, the time to come is prepared, plenteousness is made ready, a city is builded, and rest is allowed, yea, perfect goodness and wisdom. ⁵³The root of evil is sealed up from you, weakness and the moth is hid from you, and corruption is fled into hell to be forgotten: ⁵⁴Sorrows are passed, and in the end is shewed the treasure of immortality. ⁵⁵And therefore ask thou no more questions concerning the multitude of them that perish. ⁵⁶For when they had taken liberty, they despised the most High, thought scorn of his law, and forsook his ways. ⁵⁷Moreover they have trodden down his righteous,

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