8:54 Sorrows are passed, and in the end is shewed the treasure of immortality. 8:55 And therefore ask thou no more questions concerning the multitude of them that perish. 8:56 For when they had taken liberty, they despised the most High, thought scorn of his law, and forsook his ways. 8:57 Moreover they have trodden down his righteous, 8:58 And said in their heart, that there is no God; yea, and that knowing they must die. 8:59 For as the things aforesaid shalt receive you, so thirst and pain are prepared for them: for it was not his will that men should come to nought: 8:60 But they which be created have defiled the name of him that made them, and were unthankful unto him which prepared life for them. 8:61 And therefore is my judgment now at hand. 8:62 These things have I not shewed unto all men, but unto thee, and a few like thee. Then answered I and said, 8:63 Behold, O Lord, now hast thou shewed me the multitude of the wonders, which thou wilt begin to do in the last times: but at what time, thou hast not shewed me. 9:1 He answered me then, and said, Measure thou the time diligently in itself: and when thou seest part of the signs past, which I have told thee before, 9:2 Then shalt thou understand, that it is the very same time, wherein the Highest will begin to visit the world which he made. 9:3 Therefore when there shall be seen earthquakes and uproars of the people in the world: 9:4 Then shalt thou well understand, that the most High spake of those things from the days that were before thee, even from the beginning. 9:5 For like as all that is made in the world hath a beginning and an end, and the end is manifest: 9:6 Even so the times also of the Highest have plain beginnings in wonder and powerful works, and endings in effects and signs. 9:7 And every one that shall be saved, and shall be able to escape by his works, and by faith, whereby ye have believed, 9:8 Shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my salvation in my land, and within my borders: for I have sanctified them for me from the beginning. 9:9 Then shall they be in pitiful case, which now have abused my ways: and they that have cast them away despitefully shall dwell in torments. 9:10 For such as in their life have received benefits, and have not known me; 9:11 And they that have loathed my law, while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet place of repentance was open unto them, understood not, but despised it; 9:12 The same must know it after death by pain. 9:13 And therefore be thou not curious how the ungodly shall be punished, and when: but enquire how the righteous shall be saved, whose the world is, and for whom the world is created. 9:14 Then answered I and said, 9:15 I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also hereafter, that there be many more of them which perish, than of them which shall be saved: 9:16 Like as a wave is greater than a drop.