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Then answered I and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, and if it be possible, and if I be meet therefore,
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Shew me then whether there be more to come than is past, or more past than is to come.
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What is past I know, but what is for to come I know not.
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And he said unto me, Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude unto thee.
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So I stood, and saw, and, behold, an hot burning oven passed by before me: and it happened that when the flame was gone by I looked, and, behold, the smoke remained still.