49. As an infant doesn’t give birth and a woman who has become old doesn’t give birth any longer, so I have set in order the world I created."
50. I asked: "Since you have given me opportunity, let me speak before you. Is our mother, of whom you spoke to me, still young? Or is she already approaching old age?"
51. He responded to me: "Ask one who gives birth, and she will tell you. Say to her,
52. ‘Why are those you have borne now not like those whom you bore before, but are smaller in stature?’
53. She herself will tell you, ‘Those who are born in youth’s vigor are different from those who are born in the time of old age, when the womb is failing.’
54. Therefore, consider that you yourself are smaller in stature than those who were before you,
55. and those who come after you will be even smaller than you, as born of a creation that is already aging and past the strength of youth."
56. I said: "I ask, Lord, if you look favorably on me, show your servant through whom you will visit your creation."