10:32 And I said, Because thou hast forsaken me, and yet I did
according to thy words, and I went into the field, and, lo, I have
seen, and yet see, that I am not able to express.
10:33 And he said unto me, Stand up manfully, and I will advise thee.
10:34 Then said I, Speak on, my lord, in me; only forsake me not, lest
I die frustrate of my hope.
10:35 For I have seen that I knew not, and hear that I do not know.
10:36 Or is my sense deceived, or my soul in a dream?
10:37 Now therefore I beseech thee that thou wilt shew thy servant of
this vision.
10:38 He answered me then, and said, Hear me, and I shall inform thee,
and tell thee wherefore thou art afraid: for the Highest will reveal
many secret things unto thee.
10:39 He hath seen that thy way is right: for that thou sorrowest
continually for thy people, and makest great lamentation for Sion.
10:40 This therefore is the meaning of the vision which thou lately
sawest:
10:41 Thou sawest a woman mourning, and thou begannest to comfort her:
10:42 But now seest thou the likeness of the woman no more, but there
appeared unto thee a city builded.
10:43 And whereas she told thee of the death of her son, this is the
solution:
10:44 This woman, whom thou sawest is Sion: and whereas she said unto
thee, even she whom thou seest as a city builded,
10:45 Whereas, I say, she said unto thee, that she hath been thirty
years barren: those are the thirty years wherein there was no offering
made in her.
10:46 But after thirty years Solomon builded the city and offered
offerings: and then bare the barren a son.
10:47 And whereas she told thee that she nourished him with labour:
that was the dwelling in Jerusalem.
10:48 But whereas she said unto thee, That my son coming into his
marriage chamber happened to have a fail, and died: this was the
destruction that came to Jerusalem.
10:49 And, behold, thou sawest her likeness, and because she mourned
for her son, thou begannest to comfort her: and of these things which
have chanced, these are to be opened unto thee.
10:50 For now the most High seeth that thou art grieved unfeignedly,
and sufferest from thy whole heart for her, so hath he shewed thee the
brightness of her glory, and the comeliness of her beauty:
10:51 And therefore I bade thee remain in the field where no house was
builded:
10:52 For I knew that the Highest would shew this unto thee.
10:53 Therefore I commanded thee to go into the field, where no
foundation of any building was.
10:54 For in the place wherein the Highest beginneth to shew his city,
there can no man’s building be able to stand.
10:55 And therefore fear not, let not thine heart be affrighted, but go
thy way in, and see the beauty and greatness of the building, as much
as thine eyes be able to see:
10:56 And then shalt thou hear as much as thine ears may comprehend.
10:57 For thou art blessed above many other, and art called with the
Highest; and so are but few.
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