41. Then said I, no, Lord, that can it not. And he said to me, in the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb:
42. for like as a woman that travails makes haste to escape the anguish of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed to them from the beginning.
43. Then shall it be showed you concerning those things which you desire to see.
44. Then answered I and said, if I have found favor in your sight, and if it be possible, and if I be meet therefore,
45. show me this also, whether there be more to come than is past, or whether the more part is gone over us.
46. For what is gone I know, but what is for to come I know not.
47. And he said to me, Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude to you.
48. so I stood, and saw, and, behold, a hot burning oven passed by before me: and it happened, that when the flame was gone by I looked, and, behold, the smoke remained still.