8 when all things come to judgement. Do ye therefore prepare your hearts for that which before ye believed, lest ye come to be in bondage in both worlds, so that ye be led away captive here and be (2BA) 9 tormented there. For that which exists now or which has passed away, or which is to come, in all these things, neither is the evil fully evil, nor again the good fully good. (2BA) 10 For all healthinesses of this time are turning into diseases, (2BA)
2 Baruch 83:8–10
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