42 He said to me, “I will compare my judgment to a ring. Just as there is no slowness of those who are last, even so there is no swiftness of those who be first.” (WEB) 43 So I answered, “Couldn’t you make them all at once that have been made, and that are now, and that are yet to come, that you might show your judgment sooner?” (WEB) 44 Then he answered me, “The creature may not move faster than the creator, nor can the world hold them at once who will be created in it.” (WEB)
2 Esdras 5:42–44
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