2 Esdras 7:9

2 Esdras 7:9 Context

⁶There is also another thing; A city is builded, and set upon a broad field, and is full of all good things: ⁷The entrance thereof is narrow, and is set in a dangerous place to fall, like as if there were a fire on the right hand, and on the left a deep water: ⁸And one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once. ⁹If this city now were given unto a man for an inheritance, if he never shall pass the danger set before it, how shall he receive this inheritance? ¹⁰And I said, It is so, Lord. Then said he unto me, Even so also is Israel's portion. ¹¹Because for their sakes I made the world: and when Adam transgressed my statutes, then was decreed that now is done. ¹²Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, full of sorrow and travail: they are but few and evil, full of perils,: and very painful.

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