¹Nevertheless, whoever understands shall then be wise.

²For the measure and reckoning of that time are two parts a week of seven weeks.'

³And I answered and said: 'It is good for a man to come and behold, but it is better that he should not come lest he fall. 4 [But I will say this also:

⁴Will he who is incorruptible despise those things which are corruptible, and whatever befalls in the case of those things which are corruptible, that he might look only to those things which are not corruptible?]

⁵But if; O Lord, those things shall assuredly come to pass which thou hast foretold to me, so dost thou show this also unto me if indeed I have found grace in Thy sight.

⁶Is it in one place or in one of the parts of the earth that those things are come to pass, or will the whole earth experience (them) ?'