2 Esdras 7:98-100

Common English Bible

⁹⁸The seventh order, which is greater than all those mentioned—because they will rejoice with confidence and will trust without being disappointed and will rejoice without fear; for they hasten to see the face of him whom they served when they were alive and from whom they are about to receive a reward now that they are glorified.

⁹⁹“This is the order of the souls of the just, as is announced immediately, and those previously mentioned are the ways of torment that those who paid no heed will suffer.”

¹⁰⁰I answered: “Will time, therefore, be given to souls after they are separated from the bodies to see what you told me?”

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