4 And no food was given to them, because it did not belong to them; (ODE) 5 And they sealed up the abysses with the seal of the Lord. And they perished, in the thought, those that had existed from ancient times; (ODE) 6 For they were corrupt from the beginning; and the end of their corruption was life: (ODE)
Odes of Solomon 24:4–6
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