2. and he said to me, Up, Esdras, and hear the words that I am come to tell you.
3. And I said, Speak on, my Lord. Then he said to me, There is a sea set in a wide place, that it might be broad and vast.
4. But the entrance thereof shall be set in a narrow place so as to be like a river;
5. whoso then should desire to go into the sea to look upon it, or to rule it, if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?
6. Another thing also: There is a city builded and set in a plain country, and full of all good things;
7. but the entrance thereof is narrow, and is set in a dangerous place to fall, having a fire on the right hand, and on the left a deep water: