46 And he said to me, Ask the womb of a woman, and say to her, If you bring forth ten children, why do you it at several times? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.
47 And I said, she can’t: but must do it by distance of time.
48 Then said he to me, Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown therein in their several times.
49 For like as a young child may not bring forth, neither she that is grown old bring forth any more, even so have I disposed the world which I created.
50 And I asked, and said, Seeing you have now showed me the way, I will speak before you: Is our mother, of whom you have told me, still young? or does she now draw near to age?
51 He answered me, and said, Ask a woman that bears children, and she shall tell you.
52 Say to her, wherefore are not they whom you have now brought forth like those that were before, but less of stature?