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because you have humbled yourself, as is becoming for you, and have not considered yourself to be among the righteous. You will receive the greatest glory,
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for many miseries will affect those who inhabit the world in the last times, because they have walked in great pride.
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But think of your own case, and inquire concerning the glory of those who are like yourself,
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because it is for you that paradise is opened, the tree of life is planted, the age to come is prepared, plenty is provided, a city is built, rest is appointed, goodness is established and wisdom perfected beforehand.
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The root of evil is sealed up from you, illness is banished from you, and death is hidden; Hades has fled and corruption has been forgotten;
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