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For what good is it to all that they live in sorrow now and expect punishment after death?
118
O Adam, what have you done? For though it was you who sinned, the fall was not yours alone, but ours also who are your descendants.
119
For what good is it to us, if an immortal time has been promised to us, but we have done deeds that bring death?
120
And what good is it that an everlasting hope has been promised to us, but we have miserably failed?
121
Or that safe and healthful habitations have been reserved for us, but we have lived wickedly?
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