20 Behold, I will go, as you have commanded me, and reprove the people who now live, but who will warn those who will be born afterward? For the world is set in darkness, and those who dwell in it are without light. (WEB) 21 For your law has been burned, therefore no one knows the things that are done by you, or the works that will be done. (WEB) 22 But if I have found favor before you, send the Holy Spirit to me, and I will write all that has been done in the world since the beginning, even the things that were written in your law, that men may be able to find the path, and that those who would live in the latter days may live.” (WEB)
2 Esdras 14:20–22
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