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If now the city is given to someone as an inheritance, how will the heir receive the inheritance unless by passing through the appointed danger?"
10
I said, "That is right, lord." He said to me, "So also is Israel's portion.
11
For I made the world for their sake, and when Adam transgressed my statutes, what had been made was judged.
12
And so the entrances of this world were made narrow and sorrowful and toilsome; they are few and evil, full of dangers and involved in great hardships.
13
But the entrances of the greater world are broad and safe, and yield the fruit of immortality.
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