2 Esdras 8:56

2 Esdras 8:56 Context

⁵³The root of evil is sealed up from you, weakness and the moth is hid from you, and corruption is fled into hell to be forgotten: ⁵⁴Sorrows are passed, and in the end is shewed the treasure of immortality. ⁵⁵And therefore ask thou no more questions concerning the multitude of them that perish. ⁵⁶For when they had taken liberty, they despised the most High, thought scorn of his law, and forsook his ways. ⁵⁷Moreover they have trodden down his righteous, ⁵⁸And said in their heart, that there is no God; yea, and that knowing they must die. ⁵⁹For as the things aforesaid shalt receive you, so thirst and pain are prepared for them: for it was not his will that men should come to nought:

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