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My Son himself will indict the assembled nations for their impious deeds—these things were indicated by the storm. He will scold them for their evil plans and reveal the torments with which they are about to be tortured. These things correspond to the flame.
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He will destroy them without effort by the Law, which was indicated by the fire.
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"As to the fact that you saw him collecting to himself another peaceful multitude,
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these are the ten tribes that were taken captive from their land in the days of King Hoshea, whom King Shalmaneser of the Assyrians took across the river as a captive. They were taken into another land,
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but they made this plan for themselves: They would leave the multitude of the nations and go into a more remote region, where the human race had never lived.