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If therefore that which has been sown is not reaped, and if the place where the evil has been sown does not pass away, the field where the good has been sown will not come.
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For a grain of evil seed was sown in Adam's heart from the beginning, and how much ungodliness it has produced until now, and will produce until the time of threshing comes!
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Consider now for yourself how much fruit of ungodliness a grain of evil seed has produced.
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When heads of grain without number are sown, how great a threshing floor they will fill!"
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Then I answered and said, "How long and when will these things be? Why are our years few and evil?"
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He answered me and said, "You do not hasten faster than the Most High, for your haste is for yourself, but the Highest hastens on behalf of many.
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Did not the souls of the righteous in their chambers ask about these matters, saying, `How long are we to remain here? And when will come the harvest of our reward?
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And Jeremiel the archangel answered them and said, `When the number of those like yourselves is completed; for he has weighed the age in the balance,
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and measured the times by measure, and numbered the times by number; and he will not move or arouse them until that measure is fulfilled.'"
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Then I answered and said, "O sovereign Lord, but all of us also are full of ungodliness.
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And it is perhaps on account of us that the time of threshing is delayed for the righteous -- on account of the sins of those who dwell on earth."