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2 Esdras 5:40-42
Revised Standard Version
2 Esdras 5:40-42
Revised Standard Version
40 He said to me, “Just as you cannot do one of the things that were mentioned, so you cannot discover my judgment, or the goal of the love that I have promised my people.”
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41 And I said, “Yet behold, O Lord, thou dost have charge of those who are alive at the end, but what will those do who were before us, or we, or those who come after us?”
42 He said to me, “I shall liken my judgment to a circle;[a] just as for those who are last there is no slowness, so for those who are first there is no haste.”
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