2 Esdras 6:5-7

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⁵ and before the present years were reckoned, and before the imaginations of those who now sin were estranged, and before those who stored up treasures of faith were sealed^(A)— ⁶ then I planned these things, and they were made through me alone and not through another, just as the end shall come through me alone and not through another.”^(B)

The Dividing of the Times

⁷ I answered and said, “What will be the dividing of the times, or when will be the end of the first age and the beginning of the age that follows?”