2 Esdras 4:8-10

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⁸ perhaps you would have said to me, ‘I never went down into the deep, nor as yet into Hades, neither did I ever ascend into heaven.’^{(A) 9} But now I have asked you only about fire and wind and the day, things that you have experienced and from which you cannot be separated, and you have given me no answer about them.”^{(B) 10} He said to me, “You cannot understand the things with which you have grown up;