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And from the beginning all have been born of her, and others will come; and behold, almost all go to perdition, and a multitude of them are destined for destruction.
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Who then ought to mourn the more, she who lost so great a multitude, or you who are grieving for one?
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But if you say to me, `My lamentation is not like the earth's, for I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth in pain and bore in sorrow;
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but it is with the earth according to the way of the earth -- the multitude that is now in it goes as it came';
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then I say to you, `As you brought forth in sorrow, so the earth also has from the beginning given her fruit, that is, man, to him who made her.'