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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; hell has fled and corruption has been forgotten;
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sorrows have passed away, and in the end the treasure of immortality is made manifest.
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Therefore do not ask any more questions about the multitude of those who perish.
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For they also received freedom , but they despised the Most High, and were contemptuous of his law, and forsook his ways.
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Moreover they have even trampled upon his righteous ones,
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and said in their hearts that there is not God -- though knowing full well that they must die.
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For just as the things which I have predicted await you, so the thirst and torment which are prepared await them. For the Most High did not intend that men should be destroyed;
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but they themselves who were created have defiled the name of him who made them, and have been ungrateful to him who prepared life for them.
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Therefore my judgment is now drawing near;