4 Ezra (also called 2 Esdras) · Restored Names Edition · first paragraph
1And he answered me, saying, The most High has made this world for many, but the world to come for few.
2I will tell you a similitude, Esdras; As when you ask the earth, it shall say to you, that it gives much mould of which earthen vessels are made, but little dust that gold comes of: even so is the course of this present world.
3There be many created, but few shall be saved.
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