¹ He answered me then, and said, Measure thou the time diligently in itself: and when thou seest part of the signs past, which I have told thee before,
² Then shalt thou understand, that it is the very same time, wherein the Highest will begin to visit the world which he made.
³ Therefore when there shall be seen earthquakes and uproars of the people in the world:
⁴ Then shalt thou well understand, that the most High spake of those things from the days that were before thee, even from the beginning.
⁵ For like as all that is made in the world hath a beginning and an end, and the end is manifest:
⁶ Even so the times also of the Highest have plain beginnings in wonder and powerful works, and endings in effects and signs.
⁷ And every one that shall be saved, and shall be able to escape by his works, and by faith, whereby ye have believed,
⁸ Shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my salvation in my land, and within my borders: for I have sanctified them for me from the beginning.
⁹ Then shall they be in pitiful case, which now have abused my ways: and they that have cast them away despitefully shall dwell in torments.
¹⁰ For such as in their life have received benefits, and have not known me;
¹¹ And they that have loathed my law, while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet place of repentance was open unto them, understood not, but despised it;
¹² The same must know it after death by pain.
¹³ And therefore be thou not curious how the ungodly shall be punished, and when: but enquire how the righteous shall be saved, whose the world is, and for whom the world is created.

³³ Then I answered and said, How, and when shall these things come to pass? wherefore are our years few and evil?
³⁴ And he answered me, saying, Do not thou hasten above the most Highest: for thy haste is in vain to be above him, for thou hast much exceeded.
³⁵ Did not the souls also of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, How long shall I hope on this fashion? when cometh the fruit of the floor of our reward?
³⁶ And unto these things Uriel the archangel gave them answer, and said, Even when the number of seeds is filled in you: for he hath weighed the world in the balance.
³⁷ By measure hath he measured the times; and by number hath he numbered the times; and he doth not move nor stir them, until the said measure be fulfilled.
³⁸ Then answered I and said, O Lord that bearest rule, even we all are full of impiety.
³⁹ And for our sakes peradventure it is that the floors of the righteous are not filled, because of the sins of them that dwell upon the earth.
⁴⁰ So he answered me, and said, Go thy way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she hath fulfilled her nine months, if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her.
⁴¹ Then said I, No, Lord, that can she not. And he said unto me, In the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb of a woman:
⁴² For like as a woman that travaileth maketh haste to escape the necessity of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed unto them.