2 Esdras 7:4-6

Revised Standard Version

⁴ but it has an entrance set in a narrow place, so that it is like a river. ⁵ If any one, then, wishes to reach the sea, to look at it or to navigate it, how can he come to the broad part unless he passes through the narrow part? ⁶ Another example: There is a city built and set on a plain, and it is full of all good things;