2 Esdras 13:20-22

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁰ Yet it is better^[a] to come into these things,^[b] though incurring peril, than to pass from the world like a cloud, and not to see what will happen in the last days.’

He answered me and said, ²¹ ‘I will tell you the interpretation of the vision, and I will also explain to you the things that you have mentioned. ²² As for what you said about those who survive, and concerning those who do not survive,^[c] this is the interpretation: