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Wisdom 11:25
Nothing could survive unless you had willed it. Nothing could remain unless you continued to call it into being.
For thou lovest all things that are, and hatest none of the things which thou hast made: for thou didst not appoint, or make any thing hating it.
How could anything last, if you did not want it to? How could it endure, if you had not created it?
How could a thing remain, unless you willed it; or be preserved, had it not been called forth by you?
How could anything have continued to exist unless you had willed it, or be preserved if it had not been called forth by you?
How would anything have endured if you had not willed it? Or how would anything not called forth by you have been preserved?
How would anything have endured if you had not willed it? Or how would anything not called forth by you have been preserved?
How would anything have endured if you had not willed it? Or how would anything not called forth by you have been preserved?
How would anything have endured if you had not willed it? Or how would anything not called forth by you have been preserved?
How would anything have endured if thou hadst not willed it? Or how would anything not called forth by thee have been preserved?
How would anything have endured if thou hadst not willed it? Or how would anything not called forth by thee have been preserved?
But how might anything dwell, no but thou wouldest?/but if thou wouldest? (or if thou haddest not willed it?) either how should a thing be kept, that were not called of (or by) thee? [How forsooth might anything abide still, but thou haddest would? or that of thee were not called, should be kept?]
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