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The age has lost its youth, and the times begin to grow old.
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For the age is divided into twelve parts, and nine of its parts have already passed,
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as well as half of the tenth part; so two of its parts remain, besides half of the tenth part.
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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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Truth shall go farther away, and falsehood shall come near. For the eagle that you saw in the vision is already hurrying to come."
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Then I answered and said, "Let me speak in your presence, Lord.
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For I will go, as you have commanded me, and I will reprove the people who are now living; but who will warn those who will be born hereafter? For the world lies in darkness, and its inhabitants are without light.