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because it is for you that paradise is opened, the tree of life is planted, the age to come is prepared, plenty is provided, a city is built, rest is appointed, goodness is established and wisdom perfected beforehand.
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The root of evil is sealed up from you, illness is banished from you, and death is hidden; Hades has fled and corruption has been forgotten;
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sorrows have passed away, and in the end the treasure of immortality is made manifest.
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Therefore do not ask any more questions about the great number of those who perish.
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For when they had opportunity to choose, they despised the Most High, and were contemptuous of his law, and abandoned his ways.
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