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I answered and said, "If I have found favor in your sight, and if it is possible, and if I am worthy,
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show me this also: whether more time is to come than has passed, or whether for us the greater part has gone by.
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For I know what has gone by, but I do not know what is to come."
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And he said to me, "Stand at my right side, and I will show you the interpretation of a parable."
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So I stood and looked, and behold, a flaming furnace passed by before me, and when the flame had gone by I looked, and behold, the smoke remained.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.