"Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people."

"Behold, O Lord, yet art thou nigh unto them that be reserved till the end: and what shall they do that have been before me, or we that be now, or they that shall come after us?"

"I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first."

"Could thou not make those that have been made, and be now, and that are for to come, at once; that thou might shew thy judgement the sooner?"

"The creature may not haste above the maker; neither may the world hold them at once that shall be created therein."

"As thou hast said unto thy servant, that thou, which gives life to all, hast given life at once to the creature that thou hast created, and the creature bare it: even so it might now also bear them that now be present at once."

"The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel."

"Weigh thou therefore their wickedness now in the balance, and theirs also that dwell the world; and so shall thy name no where be found anymore."

"Thy heart had gone too far in this world, and think thou to comprehend the way of the most High?"

"When was it that they who dwell upon the earth have not sinned in thy sight? or what people have so kept thy commandments? Thou shall find that you all by name had kept thy precepts; but not the heathen."