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He answered and said to me: These things also I shall show you.
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Concerning your question, “For whom and for how many?”—| the good spoken beforehand shall be for those who believed, and its opposite for those who despised.
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Concerning those who drew near and those who withdrew, this is the Word:
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Those who first submitted, then withdrew and mingled with the seed of the confused nations—| their former time shall be reckoned as heights.
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Those who formerly did not know but afterward knew life and mingled with the seed of the separated peoples—| their former time shall be reckoned as valleys.
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Times shall inherit times and appointed seasons, appointed seasons; each shall receive from another. At the end everything shall be measured according to the measure of the times and the hours of the seasons.
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For corruption carries those belonging to it, and life those belonging to it.
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The dust shall be called, and it shall be said to it: Return what was not yours, and raise up everything you preserved for its time.