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 1 1|     And I saw the mysteries of God and His angels. And I said
 2 1|         I wish to plead before God about the race of the Christians.
 3 1|        on us, O thou chosen of God, Esdras. Then began I to
 4 1|       come to destruction. And God said: I will give rest in
 5 1|    that Thou art merciful. And God said: I do not see how I
 6 1|   cannot endure Thy wrath. And God said: This is the fate of
 7 1|       is the fate of such. And God said: I wish to have thee
 8 1|     Rejoice, O faithful man of God! And Esdras said: Arise,
 9 1|      plead in Thy hearing. And God said: Ask Abraham your father
10 1|        Thy long-suffering? And God said: As I have made night
11 1|     Adam the first-formed? And God said: My undefiled hands.
12 1|      to a second judgment. And God said: I cast fire upon Sodom
13 1|  according to our deserts. And God said: Your sins transcend
14 1|      pity upon Thy works. Then God remembered those whom He
15 1| judgment, what like it is. And God said: Thou hast been deceived,
16 1|       of the consummation. And God said: Number the stars and
17 1|       the sand of the sea? And God said: My chosen prophet,
18 1|    tell me also the years. And God said: If I see the righteousness
19 1|   right hand be glorified? And God said: I shall be glorified
20 1|      where is Thy promise? And God said: First will I make
21 2|        to plead with Thee. And God said: Number the flowers
22 2|   under parts of Tartarus. And God said: Come down and see.
23 2|      who said, I am the Son of God, that made stones bread,
24 2|  deceives the race of men? And God said: Listen, my prophet.
25 2|     has the heaven sinned? And God said: Since ...there is
26 2|         how has it sinned? And God said: Since the adversary,
27 2|       I wept, and said: O Lord God, have mercy upon the sinners.
28 2|     come hither, O holy one of God, we have found a little
29 2|       weep for their sins. And God said: Hear, O beloved Esdras.
30 2|        him up to judgment? And God said, with a lofty proclamation:
31 2|     where is Thy goodness? And God said: I have prepared all
32 2|       said to the Lord: O Lord God, and what man, then, who
33 2|       men thus tormented. Then God says to me: Knowest thou,
34 3|       mouth have I spoken with God, and it comes not forth
35 3|   sweet savour of the glory of God. And the angels said: We
36 3|    have seen the back parts of God. And the angels said: We
37 3|        for the race of men And God said: As thou art mortal,
38 3|        not cease to plead. And God said: Give up just now the
39 3|       to the pit of Hades. And God said to him: Hear, Esdras,
40 3|        began to say: O eternal God, the Maker of the whole