2 Esdras 4:13-15

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Parable of the Forest and the Sea

¹³ He answered me and said, “I went into a forest of trees of the plain, and they made a plan^{(A) 14} and said, ‘Come, let us go and make war against the sea, so that it may recede before us and so that we may make for ourselves more forests.’ ¹⁵ In like manner the waves of the sea also made a plan and said, ‘Come, let us go up and subdue the forest of the plain so that there also we may gain more territory for ourselves.’