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Understand therefore that those who are left are more blessed than those who have died.
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This is the interpretation of the vision: As for your seeing a man come up from the heart of the sea,
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this is he whom the Most High has been keeping for many ages, who will himself deliver his creation; and he will direct those who are left.
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And as for your seeing wind and fire and a storm coming out of his mouth,
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and as for his not holding a spear or weapon of war, yet destroying the onrushing multitude which came to conquer him, this is the interpretation:
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