10
The age has lost its youth, and the times begin to grow old.
11
For the age is divided into twelve parts, and nine of its parts have already passed,
12
as well as half of the tenth part; so two of its parts remain, besides half of the tenth part.
13
Now therefore, set your house in order, and reprove your people; comfort the lowly among them, and instruct those that are wise. And now renounce the life that is corruptible,
14
and put away from you mortal thoughts; cast away from you the burdens of humankind, and divest yourself now of your weak nature;
Footnotes 1
[a].
Syr lacks verses 11, 12: Ethiop [For the world is divided into ten parts, and has come to the tenth, and half of the tenth remains. Now . . .]
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