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Apocrypha. things shall come to pass, and the signs shall happen which I shewed thee before, and then shall my Son be declared, whom thou sawest as a man ascending.

And when all the people hear his voice, every man shall in their own land leave the battle they have one against another.

And an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together, as thou sawest them, willing to come, and to overcome him by fighting.

But he shall stand upon the top of the mount Sion.

And Sion shall come, and shall be shewed to all men, being prepared and builded, like as thou sawest the hill graven without hands.

And this my Son shall rebuke the wicked inventions of those nations, which for their wicked life are fallen into the tempest;

And shall lay before them their evil thoughts, and the torments wherewith they shall begin to be tormented, which are like unto a flame: and he shall destroy them without labour by the law which is like unto me.

And whereas thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable multitude unto him;

Those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the king of Assyria led away captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so came they into another land.

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 dwelt,

That they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land.

And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow places of the river.

For the most High then shewed signs for them, and held still the flood, till they were passed over.

For through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arsareth.

Then dwelt they there until the latter time; and now when they shall begin to come,

The Highest shall stay the springs of the stream again, that they may go through: therefore sawest thou the multitude with peace.

But those that be left behind of thy people are they that are found within my borders.

Now when he destroyeth the multitude of the nations that are gathered together, he shall defend his people that remain.

And then shall he shew them great wonders.

Then said I, O Lord that bearest rule, shew me this: Wherefore have I seen the man coming up from the midst of the sea?

And he said unto me, Like as thou canst neither seek out nor know the things that are in the deep of the sea: even so can no man upon earth see my Son, or those that be with him, but in the day time.

This is the interpretation of the dream which thou sawest, and whereby thou only art here lightened.

For thou hast forsaken thine own way, and applied thy diligence unto my law, and sought it.

Thy life hast thou ordered in wisdom, and hast called understanding thy mother.

And therefore have I shewed thee the treasures of the Highest: after other three days I will speak other things unto thee, and declare unto thee mighty and wondrous things.

Then went I forth into the field, giving praise and thanks greatly unto the most High because of his wonders which he did in time;

And because he governeth the same, and such things as fall in their seasons: and there I sat three days.

And it came to pass upon the third day, I sat under an oak, and, behold, there came a voice out of a bush over against me, and said, Esdras, Esdras.

And I said, Here am I, Lord And I stood up upon my feet.

Then said he unto me, In the bush I did manifestly reveal myself unto Moses, and talked with him, when my people served in Egypt:

And I sent him and led my people out of Egypt, and brought him up to the mount of where I held him by me a long season,

And told him many wondrous things,