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2 Esdras 8:1-2
Revised Standard Version
2 Esdras 8:1-2
Revised Standard Version
8 He answered me and said, “The Most High made this world for the sake of many, but the world to come for the sake of few. 2 But I tell you a parable, Ezra. Just as, when you ask the earth, it will tell you that it provides very much clay from which earthenware is made, but only a little dust from which gold comes; so is the course of the present world.
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