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.
49. After this there passed by before me a watery cloud, and sent down much rain with a storm; and when the stormy rain was past, the drops remained therein still.
50. Then said he to me, Consider with yourself; as the rain is more than the drops, and the fire is greater than the smoke, so the quantity which is past did more exceed; but the drops and the smoke remained still.
51. Then I prayed, and said, May I live, think you, until that time? or who shall be in those days?
52. He answered me, and said, As for the tokens whereof you asked me, I may tell you of them in part: but as touching your life, I am not sent to show you; for I do not know it.