2 Esdras 4:28

28 For the evil about which you ask me has been sown, but the harvest of it has not yet come.

2 Esdras 4:28 In-Context

26 He answered me and said, "If you are alive, you will see, and if you live long, you will often marvel, because the age is hurrying swiftly to its end.
27 It will not be able to bring the things that have been promised to the righteous in their appointed times, because this age is full of sadness and infirmities.
28 For the evil about which you ask me has been sown, but the harvest of it has not yet come.
29 If therefore that which has been sown is not reaped, and if the place where the evil has been sown does not pass away, the field where the good has been sown will not come.
30 For a grain of evil seed was sown in Adam's heart from the beginning, and how much ungodliness it has produced until now—and will produce until the time of threshing comes!

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Syr Ethiop: Meaning of Lat uncertain
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