2 Esdras 6:32-34

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³² because your voice has surely been heard by the Most High, for the Mighty One has seen your uprightness and has also observed the purity that you have maintained from your youth.^{(A) 33} Therefore he sent me to show you all these things and to say to you: ‘Believe and do not be afraid!^{(B) 34} Do not be quick to think vain thoughts concerning the former times; then you will not act hastily in the last times.’ ”^(C)