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and said in their hearts that there is not God -- though knowing full well that they must die.
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For just as the things which I have predicted await you, so the thirst and torment which are prepared await them. For the Most High did not intend that men should be destroyed;
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but they themselves who were created have defiled the name of him who made them, and have been ungrateful to him who prepared life for them.
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I have not shown this to all men, but only to you and a few like you." Then I answered and said,
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