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2 Esdras 4:13-15
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
2 Esdras 4:13-15
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Parable of the Forest and the Sea
13 He answered me and said, ‘I went into a forest of trees of the plain, and they made a plan 14 and said, “Come, let us go and make war against the sea, so that it may recede before us and so that we may make for ourselves more forests.” 15 In like manner the waves of the sea also made a plan and said, “Come, let us go up and subdue the forest of the plain so that there also we may gain more territory for ourselves.”
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