12. and didn’t come to their senses but continued to scoff while the opportunity for a changed life was still open to them—these people must acknowledge me in torment after death.
13. But don’t be curious any longer about how the wicked will be tortured. Instead, inquire how and when the righteous, to whom the world belongs and because of whom the world exists, will be saved."
14. I answered,
15. "I said before and now will say again that those who perish are more numerous than those who are saved,
16. just as a wave is greater than a drop."
17. He answered me: "As the field is, so is the seed; and as the flowers, so also the colors; as the labor, so also the product; and as the farmer, so the threshing floor.
18. There was a time in this world—when I was preparing for those who now are, before the world in which they would dwell was made for them—no one opposed me, because no one existed yet.