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Yahushua answered that the decree concerning Adam’s mortality reaches every human being according to the times appointed by the Father.
2
Long life is not proof of greater righteousness, and early death is not automatic proof of condemnation.
3
Some lives are prolonged for repentance, others so that righteousness may become an example.
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Yet no earthly span removes mortality forever.
5
Concerning Chanokh and Eliyahu, the later recension says that they too will return in the final tribulation and taste death.
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This ending belongs to the developed apocalyptic layer of the tradition.