¹⁸ This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.

² And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

⁴ For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

¹⁰ Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

¹¹ Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.