7:56 For while we lived and committed iniquity, we considered not that we should begin to suffer for it after death.
7:57 Then answered he me, and said, This is the condition of the battle, which man that is born upon the earth shall fight;
7:58 That, if he be overcome, he shall suffer as thou hast said: but if he get the victory, he shall receive the thing that I say.
7:59 For this is the life whereof Moses spake unto the people while he lived, saying, Choose thee life, that thou mayest live.
7:60 Nevertheless they believed not him, nor yet the prophets after him, no nor me which have spoken unto them,
7:61 That there should not be such heaviness in their destruction, as shall be joy over them that are persuaded to salvation.
7:62 I answered then, and said, I know, Lord, that the most High is called merciful, in that he hath mercy upon them which are not yet come into the world,
7:63 And upon those also that turn to his law;
7:64 And that he is patient, and long suffereth those that have sinned, as his creatures;
7:65 And that he is bountiful, for he is ready to give where it needeth;