4 them. For over this above all shall those who come then lament, that they rejected My law, and stopped (2BA) 5 their ears that they might not hear wisdom or receive understanding. When therefore they see those, over whom they are now exalted, (but) who shall then be exalted and glorified more than they, they shall respectively be transformed, the latter into the splendour of angels, and the former shall yet (2BA) 6 more waste away in wonder at the visions and in the beholding of the forms. For they shall first behold and afterwards depart to be tormented. (2BA)
2 Baruch 51:4–6
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2 Esdras 8:58–60
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2 Esdras 7:71–73
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