1. And when I had made an end of speaking these words, there was sent to me the angel which had been sent to me the nights before:
2. and he said to me, Up, Esdras, and hear the words that I am come to tell you.
3. And I said, Speak on, my Lord. Then he said to me, There is a sea set in a wide place, that it might be broad and vast.
4. But the entrance thereof shall be set in a narrow place so as to be like a river;
5. whoso then should desire to go into the sea to look upon it, or to rule it, if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?