2 Esdras 7:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁹ If now the city is given to someone as an inheritance, how will the heir receive the inheritance unless by passing through the appointed danger?’

¹⁰ I said, ‘That is right, lord.’ He said to me, ‘So also is Israel’s portion. ¹¹ For I made the world for their sake, and when Adam transgressed my statutes, what had been made was judged.