2 Esdras 8:54-56

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⁵⁴ sorrows have passed away, and in the end the treasure of immortality is made manifest.^{(A) 55} Therefore do not ask any more questions about the great number of those who perish. ⁵⁶ For when they had opportunity to choose, they despised the Most High and were contemptuous of his law and abandoned his ways.^(B)