28 For the evil about which you asked me has been sown, but its harvest hasn’t yet come. (WEB) 29 If therefore that which is sown isn’t reaped, and if the place where the evil is sown doesn’t pass away, the field where the good is sown won’t come. (WEB) 30 For a grain of evil seed was sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning, and how much wickedness it has produced to this time! How much more it will yet produce until the time of threshing comes! (WEB)
2 Esdras 4:28–30
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