2 Esdras 13:18-20

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁸ because they understand the things that are reserved for the last days, but cannot attain them. ¹⁹ But alas for those also who are left, and for that very reason! For they shall see great dangers and much distress, as these dreams show. ²⁰ Yet it is better^[a] to come into these things,^[b] though incurring peril, than to pass from the world like a cloud, and not to see what will happen in the last days.’

He answered me and said,