2 the nations. And now I know that those who have sinned are many, and they have lived in prosperity, and departed from the world, but that few nations will be left in those times, to whom those words shall be said which Thou didst (2BA) 3 say. For what advantage is there in this, or what (evil), worse than what we have seen befall us, are we to expect to see? (2BA) 4 But again I will speak in Thy presence: What have they profited who had knowledge before Thee, and have not walked in vanity as the rest of the nations, and have not said to the dead: "Give (2BA)
2 Baruch 14:2–4
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2 Esdras 5:40–42
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