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:
8. and there is one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once.
9. If this city now be given to a man for an inheritance, if the heir pass not the danger before him, how shall he receive his inheritance?
10. And I said, It is so, Lord. Then said he to me, Even so also is Israel’s portion.
11. Because for their sakes I made the world: and when Adam transgressed my statutes, then was decreed that now is done.
12. Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, and sorrowful and toilsome: they are but few and evil, full of perils, and charged with great toils.
13. For the entrances of the greater world are wide and sure, and bring forth fruit of immortality.
14. If then they that live enter not these strait and vain things, they can never receive those that are laid up for them.
15. Now therefore why you disquiet yourself, seeing you are but a corruptible man? and why are you moved, whereas you are but mortal?