7 What therefore can be blacker or darker than these things? This is the beginning of the black (2BA)
2 Baruch 56:7
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21 before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom, 22 to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
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