6. Another thing also: There is a city builded and set in a plain country, and full of all good things;
7. but the entrance thereof is narrow, and is set in a dangerous place to fall, having a fire on the right hand, and on the left a deep water:
8. and there is one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once.
9. If this city now be given to a man for an inheritance, if the heir pass not the danger before him, how shall he receive his inheritance?
10. And I said, It is so, Lord. Then said he to me, Even so also is Israel’s portion.
11. Because for their sakes I made the world: and when Adam transgressed my statutes, then was decreed that now is done.
12. Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, and sorrowful and toilsome: they are but few and evil, full of perils, and charged with great toils.
13. For the entrances of the greater world are wide and sure, and bring forth fruit of immortality.
14. If then they that live enter not these strait and vain things, they can never receive those that are laid up for them.
15. Now therefore why you disquiet yourself, seeing you are but a corruptible man? and why are you moved, whereas you are but mortal?
16. and why have you not considered in your mind that which is to come, rather than that which is present?
17. Then answered I and said, O Lord that bear rule, behold, you have ordained in your law, that the righteous should inherit these things, but that the ungodly should perish.