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) 45 And I said, “How have you said to your servant, that you will surely make alive at once the creature that you have created? If therefore they will be alive at once, and the creation will sustain them, even so it might now also support them to be present at once.” (WEB)
2 Esdras 5:43–45
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