2 Esdras 7:138-140

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

^68 138 and he is called the giver, because if he did not give out of his goodness so that those who have committed iniquities might be relieved of them, not one ten-thousandth of humankind could have life; ^69 139 and the judge, because if he did not pardon those who were created by his word and blot out the multitude of their sins,^{[a] 70 140} there would probably be left only very few of the innumerable multitude.’