2 Esdras 14:21

2 Esdras 14:21 Context

¹⁸For the time is fled far away, and leasing is hard at hand: for now hasteth the vision to come, which thou hast seen. ¹⁹Then answered I before thee, and said, ²⁰Behold, Lord, I will go, as thou hast commanded me, and reprove the people which are present: but they that shall be born afterward, who shall admonish them? thus the world is set in darkness, 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 work that shall begin. ²²But if I have found grace before thee, send the Holy Ghost into me, and I shall write all that hath been done in the world since the beginning, which were written in thy law, that men may find thy path, and that they which will live in the latter days may live. ²³And he answered me, saying, Go thy way, gather the people together, and say unto them, that they seek thee not for forty days. ²⁴But look thou prepare thee many box trees, and take with thee Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ecanus, and Asiel, these five which are ready to write swiftly;

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