2 Esdras 5:39-41
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
39 As for me, I am without wisdom, and how can I speak concerning the things that you have asked me?’
40 He said to me, ‘Just as you cannot do one of the things that were mentioned, so you cannot discover my judgement, or the goal of the love that I have promised to my people.’
Why Successive Generations Have Been Created
41 I said, ‘Yet, O Lord, you have charge of those who are alive at the end, but what will those do who lived before me, or we, ourselves, or those who come after us?’
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