2 Esdras 13:18

18 because they understand the things that are reserved for the last days, but cannot attain them.

2 Esdras 13:18 In-Context

16 For as I consider it in my mind, alas for those who will be left in those days! And still more, alas for those who are not left!
17 For those who are not left will be sad
18 because they understand the things that are reserved for the last days, but cannot attain them.
19 But alas for those also who are left, and for that very reason! For they shall see great dangers and much distress, as these dreams show.
20 Yet it is better to come into these things, though incurring peril, than to pass from the world like a cloud, and not to see what will happen in the last days." He answered me and said,
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