10. For the world has lost its youth, and the times begin to wax old.
11. For the world is divided into twelve parts, and ten parts of it are gone already, even the half of the tenth part:
12. and there remain of it two parts after the middle of the tenth part.
13. Now therefore set your house in order, and reprove your people, comfort the lowly among them, and instruct such of them as be wise, and now renounce the life that is corruptible,
14. and let go from the mortal thoughts, cast away from you the burdens of man, put off now your weak nature,
15. and lay aside the thoughts that are most grievous to you, and haste you to remove from these times.
16. For yet worse evils than those which you have seen happen shall be done hereafter.
17. For look, how much the world shall be weaker through age, so much the more shall evils increase upon them that dwell therein.
18. For the truth shall withdraw itself further off, and leasing be hard at hand: for now hastens the eagle to come, which you saw in vision.
19. Then answered I and said, I will speak before you, O Lord.
20. Behold, I will go, as you have commanded me, and reprove the people that now be: but they that shall be born afterward, who shall admonish them? for the world is set in darkness, and they that dwell therein are without light.
21. For your law is burned, therefore no man knows the things that are done of you, or the works that shall be done.
22. But if I have found favor before you, send the Holy Spirit to me, and I shall write all that has been done in the world since the beginning, even the things that were written in your law, that men may be able to find the path, and that they which would live in the latter days may live.