61 I won’t grieve over the multitude of those who perish; for these are those who are now like mist, and have become like flame and smoke; they are set on fire and burn hotly, and are extinguished.” (WEB) 62 I answered, “O earth, why have you produced, if the mind is made out of dust, like all other created things? (WEB) 63 For it would have been better that the dust itself had been unborn, so that the mind might not have been made from it. (WEB)
2 Esdras 7:61–63
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