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He recounted to you Solomon's proverb, `There is a tree of life for those who do his will.'
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He confirmed the saying of Ezekiel, `Shall these dry bones live?'
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For he did not forget to teach you the song that Moses taught, which says,
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`I kill and I make alive: this is your life and the length of your days.'"
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O bitter was that day -- and yet not bitter -- when that bitter tyrant of the Greeks quenched fire with fire in his cruel caldrons, and in his burning rage brought those seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the catapult and back again to more tortures,
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.