2 Esdras 9:1: "He answered me then, and said, Measure thou the time diligently in itself: and when thou seest part of the signs past, which I have told thee before,"
2 Esdras 9:2: "Then shalt thou understand, that it is the very same time, wherein the Highest will begin to visit the world which he made."
2 Esdras 9:3: "Therefore when there shall be seen earthquakes and uproars of the people in the world:"
2 Esdras 9:4: "Then shalt thou well understand, that the most High spake of those things from the days that were before thee, even from the beginning."
2 Esdras 9:5: "For like as all that is made in the world hath a beginning and an end, and the end is manifest:"
2 Esdras 9:6: "Even so the times also of the Highest have plain beginnings in wonder and powerful works, and endings in effects and signs."
2 Esdras 9:7: "And every one that shall be saved, and shall be able to escape by his works, and by faith, whereby ye have believed,"
2 Esdras 9:8: "Shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my salvation in my land, and within my borders: for I have sanctified them for me from the beginning."