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15 - The Book of Enoch · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapters ninety one through ninety seven, the concluding section of
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  Speaker 1: the book chapters ninety two through one hundred and five,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter ninety two and ninety one, Verses one through ten,
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  Speaker 1: and verses eighteen through nineteen. Enix's Book of Admonition for
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  Speaker 1: his Children, Chapter ninety two, the book written by Enoch.
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  Speaker 1: Enoch indeed wrote this complete doctrine of wisdom, which is
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  Speaker 1: praised of all men and a judge of all the earth,
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  Speaker 1: for all my children who shall dwell on the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and for the future generations who shall observe uprightness and peace.
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  Speaker 1: Let not your spirit be troubled on account of the times.
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  Speaker 1: For the Holy and Great One has appointed days for
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  Speaker 1: all things, and the righteous One shall arise from sleep,
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  Speaker 1: shall arise and walk in the paths of righteousness, and
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  Speaker 1: all his path and conversation shall be in eternal goodness
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  Speaker 1: and grace. He will be gracious to the righteous and
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  Speaker 1: give him eternal uprightness, and he will give him power,
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  Speaker 1: so that he shall be endowed with goodness and righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: and he shall walk in eternal light, and sin shall
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  Speaker 1: perish in darkness forever, and shall no more be seen
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  Speaker 1: from that day forevermore. Chapter ninety one, Verses one through
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  Speaker 1: eleven and eighteen through nineteen Enix's Admonition to his children
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  Speaker 1: Chapter ninety one. And now my son Methuselah called to
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  Speaker 1: me all thy brothers, and gathered together to me all
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  Speaker 1: the sons of thy mother. For the word calls me,
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  Speaker 1: and the spirit is poured out upon me, that I
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  Speaker 1: may show you everything that shall befall you forever. And
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  Speaker 1: thereupon methusliwens and summoned to him all his brothers, and
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  Speaker 1: assembled his relatives, and he spake unto all the children
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  Speaker 1: of righteousness, and said, hear, ye, sons of Enoch, all
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  Speaker 1: the words of your father. And hearken a right to
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  Speaker 1: the voice of my mouth. For I exhort you and
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  Speaker 1: say unto you, beloved, love uprightness, and walk therein, and
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  Speaker 1: draw not nigh to uprightness with a double heart, and
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  Speaker 1: associate not with those of a double heart, but walk
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  Speaker 1: in righteousness, my sons, and it shall guide you on
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  Speaker 1: good paths, and righteousness shall be your companion. For I
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  Speaker 1: know that violence must increase on the earth, and a
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  Speaker 1: great chastisement be executed on the earth, and all unrighteousness
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  Speaker 1: come to an end. Yea it shall be cut off
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  Speaker 1: from its roots, and its whole structure be destroyed, and
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  Speaker 1: unrighteousness shall again be consummated on the earth, and all
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  Speaker 1: the deeds of unrighteousness and of violence and transgression shall
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  Speaker 1: prevail in a twofold degree. And when sin and unrighteousness,
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  Speaker 1: and blasphemy and violence in all kinds of deeds increase,
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  Speaker 1: and apostasy and transgression and uncleanness increase, a great chastisement
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  Speaker 1: shall come from Heaven upon all these, and the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Lord will come forth with wrath and chastisement to execute
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  Speaker 1: judgment on earth. In those days, violence shall be cut
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  Speaker 1: off from its roots, and the roots of unrighteousness together
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  Speaker 1: with deceit, and they shall be destroyed from under heaven.
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  Speaker 1: And all the idols of the heathen shall be abandoned,
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  Speaker 1: and the temples burned with fire, and they shall remove
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  Speaker 1: them from the whole earth. And they, i e. The Heathen,
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  Speaker 1: shall be cast into the judgment of fire, and shall
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  Speaker 1: perish in wrath and in grievous judgment forever. And the
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  Speaker 1: righteous shall arise from their sleep, and wisdom shall arise
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  Speaker 1: and be given unto them. And after that the roots
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  Speaker 1: of unrighteousness shall be cut off, and the sinners shall
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  Speaker 1: be destroyed by the sword, shall be cut off from
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  Speaker 1: the blasphemers in every place, And those who plan violence
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  Speaker 1: and those who commit blasphemy shall perish by the sword.
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  Speaker 1: And now I tell you, my sons, and show you
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  Speaker 1: the pass of righteousness and the pass of violence. Yea,
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  Speaker 1: I will show them to you again, that you may
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  Speaker 1: know what will come to pass. Now hearken unto me,
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  Speaker 1: my sons, and walk in the paths of righteousness, and
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  Speaker 1: walk not in the paths of violence, For all who
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  Speaker 1: walk in the paths of unrighteousness shall perish forever. Chapter
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  Speaker 1: ninety three, Chapter ninety one, twelve through seventeen, The Apocalypse
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  Speaker 1: of weeks chapter ninety three, And after that Enoch both
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  Speaker 1: gave and began to recount from the books. And Enoch said,
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  Speaker 1: concerning the children of righteousness, and concerning the elect of
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  Speaker 1: the world, and concerning the plant of uprightness, I will
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  Speaker 1: speak these things, yea, I Enoch will declare them unto you,
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  Speaker 1: my sons, according to that which appeared to me in
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  Speaker 1: the heavenly vision, and which I have known through the
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  Speaker 1: word of the Holy Angels, and have learnt from the
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  Speaker 1: heavenly tablets, and Enoch began to recount from the books
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  Speaker 1: and said, I was born the seventh in the first week,
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  Speaker 1: while judgment and righteousness still endured, and after me there
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  Speaker 1: shall arise. In the second week great wickedness and deceit
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  Speaker 1: shall have sprung up, and in it there shall be
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  Speaker 1: the first end, and in it a man shall be saved.
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  Speaker 1: And after it is ended, unrighteousness shall grow up, and
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  Speaker 1: a law shall be made for the sinners. And after that,
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  Speaker 1: in the third week, at its close, a man shall
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  Speaker 1: be elected as the plant of righteous judgment, and his
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  Speaker 1: posterity shall become the plant of righteousness forevermore. And after that,
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth week, at its close, visions of the
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  Speaker 1: holy and righteous shall be seen, and a law for
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  Speaker 1: all generations, and an enclosure shall be made for them.
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  Speaker 1: And after that in the fifth week, at its close,
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  Speaker 1: the House of Glory and Dominion shall be built forever.
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  Speaker 1: And after that, in the sixth week, all who live
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  Speaker 1: in it shall be blinded, and the hearts of all
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  Speaker 1: of them shall godlessly forsake wisdom, and in it a
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  Speaker 1: man shall ascend. And at its close the House of
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  Speaker 1: Dominion shall be burnt with fire, and the whole race
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  Speaker 1: of the Chosen Route shall be dispersed. And after that,
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  Speaker 1: in the seventh week shall any apostate generation arise, and
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  Speaker 1: many shall be its deeds, and all its steeds shall
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  Speaker 1: be apostate, and at its close shall be elected the
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  Speaker 1: elect righteous of the eternal Plant of Righteousness, to receive
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  Speaker 1: sevenfold instruction concerning all his creation. For who is there
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  Speaker 1: of all the children of men that is able to
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  Speaker 1: hear the voice of the Holy One without being troubled,
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  Speaker 1: and who can think his thoughts? And who is there
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  Speaker 1: that can behold all the works of heaven? And how
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  Speaker 1: should there be one who could behold the heaven? And
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  Speaker 1: who is there that could understand the things of heaven
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  Speaker 1: and see a soul or a spirit, and could tell
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  Speaker 1: thereof or ascend, and see all their ends, and think
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  Speaker 1: them or do like them. And who is there of
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  Speaker 1: all men that could know what is the breadth and
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  Speaker 1: the length of the earth, and to whom has been
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  Speaker 1: shown the measure of all of them? Or is there
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  Speaker 1: any one who could discern the length of the heaven,
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  Speaker 1: and how great is its height, and upon what it
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  Speaker 1: is founded? And how great is the number of the stars,
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  Speaker 1: And where all the luminaries rest chapter ninety one, Verses
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  Speaker 1: twelve through seventeen, the last three weeks Chapter ninety one.
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  Speaker 1: And after that there shall be another, the eighth week,
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  Speaker 1: that of righteousness, and a sword shall be given to it,
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  Speaker 1: that a righteous judgment may be executed on the oppressors,
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  Speaker 1: and sinners shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous,
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  Speaker 1: and at its close they shall acquire houses through their righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: and a house shall be built for the Great King
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  Speaker 1: and glory forevermore, and all mankind shall look to the
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  Speaker 1: path of uprightness. And after that, in the ninth week,
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  Speaker 1: the righteous judgment shall be revealed to the whole world,
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  Speaker 1: and all the works of the godless shall vanish from
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  Speaker 1: all the earth, and the world shall be written down
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  Speaker 1: for destruction. And after this in the tenth week, in
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  Speaker 1: the seventh part, there shall be the Great Eternal Judgment,
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  Speaker 1: in which He will execute vengeance amongst the angels, and
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  Speaker 1: the first heaven shall depart and pass away, and a
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  Speaker 1: new heaven shall appear, and all the powers of the
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  Speaker 1: heaven shall give sevenfold light. And after that there will
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  Speaker 1: be many weeks without number forever, and all shall be
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  Speaker 1: in goodness and righteousness, and sin shall no more be
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  Speaker 1: mentioned forever. Chapter ninety four, verses one through five Admonitions
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  Speaker 1: to the righteous, Chapter ninety four. And now I say
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  Speaker 1: unto you, my sons, love righteousness, and walk therein, For
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  Speaker 1: the paths of righteousness are worthy of acceptation. But the
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  Speaker 1: paths of unrighteousness shall suddenly be destroyed and vanish. And
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  Speaker 1: to certain men of a generation shall the paths of
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  Speaker 1: violence and of death be revealed, and they shall hold
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  Speaker 1: themselves afar from them, and shall not follow them. And
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  Speaker 1: now I say unto you, the righteous, walk not in
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  Speaker 1: the paths of wickedness, nor in the paths of death,
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  Speaker 1: and draw not nigh to them, lest you be destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: But see can choose for yourself's righteousness and an elect
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  Speaker 1: life and way in the paths of peace. And ye
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  Speaker 1: shall live and prosper. And hold fast my words in
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  Speaker 1: the thoughts of your hearts, and suffer them not to
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  Speaker 1: be effaced from your hearts. For I know that sinners
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  Speaker 1: will tempt men to evily entreat wisdom, so that no
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  Speaker 1: place may be found for her, and no manner of
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  Speaker 1: temptation may minish. Chapter ninety four, verses six through eleven
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  Speaker 1: woes for the sinners, woe to those who build unrighteousness
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  Speaker 1: and oppression and lay deceit as a foundation, for they
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  Speaker 1: shall be suddenly overthrown, and they shall have no peace.
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  Speaker 1: Woe to those who build their houses with sin, for
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  Speaker 1: from all their foundations shall they be overthrown, and by
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  Speaker 1: the sword shall they fall. And those who acquire gold
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  Speaker 1: and silver and judgment suddenly shall perish. Woe to you,
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  Speaker 1: ye rich, for ye have trusted in your riches, and
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  Speaker 1: from your riches shall ye depart, because you have not
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  Speaker 1: remembered the most high. In the days of your riches.
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  Speaker 1: Ye have committed blasphemy and unrighteousness, and have become ready
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  Speaker 1: for the day of slaughter, and the day of darkness,
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  Speaker 1: and the day of the Great judgment. Thus I speak
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  Speaker 1: and to clare unto you, He who hath created you
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  Speaker 1: will overthrow you, And for your fall there shall be
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  Speaker 1: no compassion, and your creator will rejoice at your destruction.
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  Speaker 1: And your righteous ones in those days shall be a
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  Speaker 1: reproach to the sinners and the godless. Chapter ninety five
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  Speaker 1: Enox Grief fresh woes against the sinners. Chapter ninety five,
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  Speaker 1: Oh that mine eyes were a cloud of waters, that
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  Speaker 1: I might weep over you and pour down my tears
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  Speaker 1: as a cloud of waters, that so I might rest
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  Speaker 1: from my trouble of heart, who has permitted you to
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  Speaker 1: practice reproaches and wickedness, And so judgment shall overtake you sinners.
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  Speaker 1: Fear not the sinners, ye Righteous, For again will the
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  Speaker 1: Lord deliver them into your hands, that ye may execute
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  Speaker 1: judgment upon them according to your desire. Woe to you
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  Speaker 1: who fulminate anathemas which cannot be reversed. Healing shall therefore
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  Speaker 1: be far from you because of your sins. Woe to
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  Speaker 1: you who requite your neighbor with evil, for you shall
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  Speaker 1: be requited according to your works. Woe to you lying witnesses,
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  Speaker 1: and to those who weigh out injustice, for suddenly shall
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  Speaker 1: you perish. Woe to you sinners, for you persecute the righteous,
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  Speaker 1: For you shall be delivered up and persecuted because of injustice,
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  Speaker 1: and heavy shall its yoke be upon you. Chapter ninety
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  Speaker 1: six Grounds of hopefulness for the righteous, woes for the wicked.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter ninety six. Be hopeful, ye righteous, For suddenly shall
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  Speaker 1: the sinners perish before you, and ye shall have lordship
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  Speaker 1: over them according to your desires. And in the day
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  Speaker 1: of the turbulation of the sinners. Your children shall mount
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  Speaker 1: and rise as eagles, and higher than the vultures will
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  Speaker 1: be your nest, and you shall ascend an and enter
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  Speaker 1: the crevices of the earth and the clefts of the rock,
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  Speaker 1: forever as conies before the unrighteous, and the sirens shall
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  Speaker 1: sigh because of you and weep. Wherefore, fear not, ye
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  Speaker 1: that have suffered, For healing shall be your portion, and
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  Speaker 1: a bright light shall enlighten you, and the voice of
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  Speaker 1: rest ye shall hear from heaven. Woe unto you, ye sinners,
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  Speaker 1: for your riches make you appear like the righteous. But
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  Speaker 1: your hearts convict you of being sinners. And this fact
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  Speaker 1: shall be a testimony against you, for a memorial of
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  Speaker 1: your evil deeds. Woe to you who devour the finest
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  Speaker 1: of the wheat, and drink wine in large bowls, and
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  Speaker 1: tread underfoot the lowly with your might. Woe to you
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  Speaker 1: who drink water from every fountain, For suddenly shall ye
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  Speaker 1: be consumed and wither away, because ye have forsaken the
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  Speaker 1: fountain of life. Woe to you who work on righteousness
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  Speaker 1: and deceit and blasphemy. It shall be a memorial against
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  Speaker 1: you for evil. Woe to you ye Mighty, who with
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  Speaker 1: might oppress the righteous, For the day of your destruction
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  Speaker 1: is coming. In those days, Many and good days shall
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  Speaker 1: come to the righteous in the day of your judgment
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  Speaker 1: Chapter ninety seven. The evils in store for sinners and
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  Speaker 1: the possessors of unrighteous wealth Chapter ninety seven. Believe, ye, Righteous,
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  Speaker 1: that the sinners will become a shame and perish in
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  Speaker 1: the day of unrighteousness. Be it known unto you, ye sinners,
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  Speaker 1: that the Most High is mindful of your destruction, and
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  Speaker 1: the angels of Heaven rejoice over your destruction. What will
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  Speaker 1: ye do, ye sinners, And whither will ye flee on
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  Speaker 1: that day of judgment? When ye hear the voice of
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  Speaker 1: the prayer of the righteous, yea ye shall fair like
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  Speaker 1: unto them against whom this word shall be a testimony.
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  Speaker 1: Ye have been companions of sinners. And in those days
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  Speaker 1: the prayer of the Righteous shall reach unto the Lord
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  Speaker 1: and for you. The days of your judgment shall come,
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  Speaker 1: and all the words of your unrighteousness shall be read
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  Speaker 1: out before the Great Holy One, and your faces shall
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  Speaker 1: be covered with shame, and he will reject every work
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  Speaker 1: which has grounded on unrighteousness. Woe to you, ye sinners
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  Speaker 1: who live on the mid ocean and on the dry land,
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  Speaker 1: whose remembrance is evil against you. Woe to you who
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  Speaker 1: acquire silver and gold in unrighteousness, And say, we have
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  Speaker 1: become rich with riches and half possessions, and have acquired
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  Speaker 1: everything we have desired. And now let us do what
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  Speaker 1: we proposed. For we have gathered silver, and many are
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  Speaker 1: the husbandmen in our houses, and our granaries are brim
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  Speaker 1: full as with water. YEA, in like water, your lies
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  Speaker 1: shall flow away. For your riches shall not abide, but
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  Speaker 1: speedily ascend from you, for you have acquired it all
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  Speaker 1: in unrighteousness, And ye shall be given over to a
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  Speaker 1: great curse. And of Section fifteen