24. Know therefore, that they which be left behind are more blessed than they that be dead.
25. These are the interpretations of the vision: Whereas you saw a man coming up from the midst of the sea,
26. the same is he whom the Most High has kept a great season, which by his own self shall deliver his creature: and he shall order them that are left behind.
27. And whereas you saw, that out of his mouth there came wind, and fire, and storm;
28. and whereas he held neither spear, nor any instrument of war, but destroyed the assault of that multitude which came to fight against him; this is the interpretation:
29. Behold, the days come, when the Most High will begin to deliver them that are upon the earth.
30. And there shall come astonishment of mind upon them that dwell on the earth.
31. And one shall think to war against another, city against city, place against place, people against people, and kingdom against kingdom.
32. And it shall be, when these things shall come to pass, and the signs shall happen which I showed you before, then shall my Son be revealed, whom you saw as a man ascending.
33. And it shall be, when all the nations hear his voice, every man shall leave his own land and the battle they have one against another.
34. And an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together, as you saw, desiring to come, and to fight against him.
35. But he shall stand upon the top of the mount Sion.
36. And Sion shall come, and shall be showed to all men, being prepared and builded, like as you saw the mountain graven without hands.
37. And this my Son shall rebuke the nations which are come for their wickedness, with plagues that are like to a tempest;
38. and shall taunt them to their face with their evil thoughts, and the torments wherewith they shall be tormented, which are likened to a flame: and he shall destroy them without labor by the law, which is likened to fire.
39. And whereas you saw that he gathered to him another multitude that was peaceful;
40. these are the ten tribes, which were led away out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmananser the king of the Assyrians led away captive, and he carried them beyond the River, and they were carried into another land.
41. But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind lived,