2 Esdras 12:18

2 Esdras 12:18 Context

¹⁵Whereof the second shall begin to reign, and shall have more time than any of the twelve. ¹⁶And this do the twelve wings signify, which thou sawest. ¹⁷As for the voice which thou heardest speak, and that thou sawest not to go out from the heads but from the midst of the body thereof, this is the interpretation: ¹⁸That after the time of that kingdom there shall arise great strivings, and it shall stand in peril of failing: nevertheless it shall not then fall, but shall be restored again to his beginning. ¹⁹And whereas thou sawest the eight small under feathers sticking to her wings, this is the interpretation: ²⁰That in him there shall arise eight kings, whose times shall be but small, and their years swift. ²¹And two of them shall perish, the middle time approaching: four shall be kept until their end begin to approach: but two shall be kept unto the end.