II. ESDRAS. Chapter 14

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CHAP. XIV.

A voice out of a bush calleth Esdras, 10 and telleth him that the world waxeth old. 22 He desireth, because the Law was burnt, to write all againe, 24 and is bid to get swift writers. 39 Hee and they are filled with vnderstanding: 45 but hee is charged not to publish all that is written.

¹And it came to passe, vpon the third day I sate vnder an oke, and behold, there came a voyce out of a bush ouer against me, and said, Esdras, Esdras.

²And I said, Here am I Lord, and I stood vp vpon my feet.

³Then said he vnto me, In the bush I did manifestly reueale my selfe vnto Moses, and talked with him, when my people serued in Egypt.³

⁴And I sent him, and led my people out of Egypt, and brought him vp to the mount of Sinai, where I held him by me, a long season,

⁵And told him many wonderous things, and shewed him the secrets of the times, and the end, and commanded him, saying,

⁶These wordes shalt thou declare, and these shalt thou hide.

⁷And now I say vnto thee,

⁸That thou lay vp in thy heart the signes that I haue shewed, and the dreames that thou hast seene, and the interpretations which thou hast heard:

⁹For thou shalt be taken away from all, and from henceforth thou shalt remaine with my sonne, and with such as be like thee, vntill the times be ended.

¹⁰For the world hath lost his youth, and the times begin to waxe old.

¹¹For the world is diuided into twelue parts, and the ten parts of it are gone already, and halfe of a tenth part.

¹²And there remaineth that which is after the halfe of the tenth part.

¹³Now therefore set thine house in order, and reproue thy people, comfort such of them as be in trouble, and now renounce corruption.

¹⁴Let go frō thee mortall thoughts, cast away the burdens of man, put off now the weake nature,

¹⁵And set aside the thoughts that are most heauy vnto thee, and haste thee to flie from these times.

¹⁶For yet greater euils then those which thou hast seene happen, shall bee done hereafter.¹⁶

¹⁷For looke how much the world shall be weaker through age: so much the more shall euils increase vpon them that dwell therein.

¹⁸For the trueth is fled farre away, and leasing is hard at hand: For now hasteth the vision to come, which thou hast seene.

¹⁹Then answered I before thee, and said,

²⁰Behold, Lord, I will go as thou hast commanded me, and reprooue the people which are present, but they that shall be borne afterward, who shall admonish them? thus the world is set in darkenes, and they that dwell therein, are without light.

²¹For thy law is burnt, therefore no man knoweth the things that are done of thee, or the works that shal begin.

²²But if I haue found grace before thee, send the holy Ghost into me, and I shall write all that hath bene done in the world, since the beginning, which were written in thy Lawe, that men may find thy path, and that they which will liue in the latter dayes, may liue.

²³And he answered me, saying, Goe thy way, gather the people together, and say vnto them, that they seeke thee not for fourtie dayes.

²⁴But looke thou prepare thee many boxe trees, and take with thee Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Eranus and Asiel, these fiue which are ready to write swiftly.²⁴

²⁵And come hither, and I shall light a candle of vnderstanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out, till the things be performed which thou shalt beginne to write.

²⁶And when thou hast done, some things shalt thou publish, and some things shalt thou shew secretly to the wise: to morrowe this houre shalt thou beginne to write.

²⁷Then went I foorth as he commanded, and gathered all the people together, and said,

²⁸Heare these words, O Israel.

²⁹Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, from whence they were deliuered:²⁹

³⁰And receiued the law of life which they kept not, which ye also haue transgressed after them.³⁰

³¹Then was the land, euen the land of Sion, parted among you by lot, but your fathers, and yee your selues haue done vnrighteousnesse, and haue not kept the wayes which the Highest commanded you.

³²And for as much as he is a righteous iudge, hee tooke from you in time, the thing that he had giuen you.

³³And now are you heere, and your brethren amongst you.

³⁴Therefore if so be that you will subdue your owne vnderstanding, and reforme your hearts, yee shall be kept aliue, and after death yee shall obtaine mercy.

³⁵For after death, shall the iudgement come, when we shall liue againe: and then shall the names of the righteous be manifest, and the workes of the vngodly shall be declared.

³⁶Let no man therefore come vnto me now, nor seeke after me these fourty dayes.

³⁷So I tooke the fiue men as hee commanded me, and we went into the field, and remained there.

³⁸And the next day behold a voyce called mee saying, Esdras, open thy mouth and drinke that I giue thee to drinke.³⁸

³⁹Then opened I my mouth, and behold, he reached me a full cup, which was full as it were with water, but the colour of it was like fire.

⁴⁰And I tooke it, and dranke: and when I had drunke of it, my heart vttered vnderstanding: and wisedome grew in my brest, for my spirit strengthened my memory.

⁴¹And my mouth was opened and shut no more.

⁴²The highest gaue vnderstanding vnto the fiue men, and they wrote the wonderfull visions of the night, that were told, which they knew not: And they sate fourty dayes, and they wrote in the day, and at night they ate bread.

⁴³As for me I spake in the day, and held not my tongue by night:

⁴⁴In fourty dayes they wrote two hundred and foure bookes.⁴⁴

⁴⁵And it came to passe when the fourty dayes were fulfilled, that the Highest spake, saying, The first that thou hast written, publish openly, that the worthy and vnworthy may read it.

⁴⁶But keepe the seuenty last, that thou mayest deliuer them onely to such as be wise, among the people.

⁴⁷For in them is the spring of vnderstanding, the fountains of wisedome, and the streame of knowledge.⁴⁷

⁴⁸And I did so.

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for 2 Esdras Chapter 14

³ Exod.3. 2,8.
¹⁶ Mat.24.7
²⁴ Or, boxe tables to write on, See ver.44. , Or, Banus.
²⁹ Gene. 47.4.
³⁰ Act.7. 53.
³⁸ Ezek.3.2.
⁴⁴ Or, 904.
⁴⁷ Or, the light of knowledge.

* Some content courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

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