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2 Esdras 4:49-51
Revised Standard Version
2 Esdras 4:49-51
Revised Standard Version
49 And after this a cloud full of water passed before me and poured down a heavy and violent rain, and when the rainstorm had passed, drops remained in the cloud.
50 And he said to me, “Consider it for yourself; for as the rain is more than the drops, and the fire is greater than the smoke, so the quantity that passed was far greater; but drops and smoke remained.”
51 Then I prayed and said, “Do you think that I shall live until those days? Or who will be alive in those days?”
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