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2 Esdras 8:52–54

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52because it is for you that paradise is opened, the tree of life is planted, the age to come is prepared, plenty is provided, a city is built, rest is appointed,o goodness is established, and wisdom is perfected beforehand.* 53The root of evilp is sealed up from you, illness is banished from you, and deathq is hidden; Hades has fled, and corruption has been forgotten;r* 54sorrows have passed away, and in the end the treasure of immortality is made manifest.*

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Footnotes

  1. oSyr Ethiop: Lat allowed
  2. pLat lacks of evil
  3. qSyr Ethiop Arm: Lat lacks death
  4. rSyr: Lat Hades and corruption have fled into oblivion; or corruption has fled into Hades to be forgotten

Cross references

  1. *2 Esd 2:12; 7:26; 10:27; Heb 11:16; Rev 22:14
  2. *2 Esd 2:38; Rev 20:14
  3. *Rev 21:4

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