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Another instance: A city is built and positioned on a broad plain, full of all good things.
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Its entrance, however, is narrow and located on a precipice so that there is fire on the right and deep water on the left.
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There is a single path located between them, between the fire and the water, and the path has only room for human footprints.
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If that city is given to someone as an inheritance, if the heir doesn't pass through the danger, how will the heir receive the inheritance?"
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I said, "Indeed, Lord." He said to me: "So also is Israel's portion. I indeed made the world on account of them.
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When Adam transgressed my ordinances, what had been made was judged,
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and the entrances of this world were made narrow, sorrowful, and troublesome. They are few and bad, full of dangers and involving people in great hardships.
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The entrances of the greater world, however, are spacious and secure, and they generate the fruit of immortality.
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If those who live don't enter these narrow and empty places, they can't receive the things that are in store.
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Therefore, why are you disturbed, being corruptible, and why are you upset, being mortal?
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Why haven't you focused your mind on what is still to come, rather than on what is present?"