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2 Esdras 5:40-42
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
2 Esdras 5:40-42
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
40 He said to me, ‘Just as you cannot do one of the things that were mentioned, so you cannot discover my judgement, or the goal of the love that I have promised to my people.’
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41 I said, ‘Yet, O Lord, you have charge of those who are alive at the end, but what will those do who lived before me, or we, ourselves, or those who come after us?’
42 He said to me, ‘I shall liken my judgement 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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