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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,
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and put away from you mortal thoughts; cast away from you the burdens of humankind, and divest yourself now of your weak nature;
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lay to one side the thoughts that are most grievous to you, and hurry to escape from these times.
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For evils worse than those that you have now seen happen shall take place hereafter.
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For the weaker the world becomes through old age, the more shall evils be increased upon its inhabitants.
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