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If that which was sown isn't reaped, and the place where evil has been sown hasn't departed, the field where good is sown won't come.
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A grain of evil seed was sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning, and how much godlessness it has produced until now and will produce until the time for threshing comes!
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Calculate for yourself how much godless fruit the grain of evil seed will have produced!
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When the innumerable ears of grain are sown, how great a threshing floor will they begin to make!"
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I answered: "Where and when will these things be? Why are our years few and evil?"
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He answered: "Don't be in a greater hurry than the Most High. You hurry only for yourself, but the Most High on behalf of many.
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Didn't the souls of the just in their resting places ask about these things, saying, ‘How long are we to remain here, and when will the harvest of our reward come?'
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Then Jeremiel the angel answered them, ‘When the number of those like you is complete, for God has weighed the world in a balance
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and measured the times by measure and numbered the times by number, and he won't move or arouse himself until the prescribed measure is fulfilled.'"
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I answered: "Supreme Lord, we all are also full of impiety.
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Is it perhaps because of us, and because of the sins of those who live on earth, that the harvest of the just is delayed?"