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2 Esdras 4:10-12
Revised Standard Version
2 Esdras 4:10-12
Revised Standard Version
10 And he said to me, “You cannot understand the things with which you have grown up; 11 how then can your mind comprehend the way of the Most High? And how can one who is already worn out[a] by the corrupt world understand incorruption?”[b] When I heard this, I fell on my face[c] 12 and said to him, “It would be better for us not to be here than to come here and live in ungodliness, and to suffer and not understand why.”
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- 2 Esdras 4:11 The text here is uncertain
- 2 Esdras 4:11 Syr Ethiop the way of the incorruptible?
- 2 Esdras 4:11 Syr Ethiop Arab 1: Latin is corrupt
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