2 Esdras 4:46-48

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴⁶ For I know what has gone by, but I do not know what is to come.’

⁴⁷ And he said to me, ‘Stand at my right side, and I will show you the interpretation of a parable.’

⁴⁸ So I stood and looked, and lo, a flaming furnace passed by before me, and when the flame had gone by I looked, and lo, the smoke remained.