4 If therefore we direct and dispose our hearts, We shall receive everything that we lost, And much better things than we lost by many times. (2BA) 5 For what we have lost was subject to corruption, And what we shall receive shall not be corruptible. (2BA) 6 [Moreover, also, I have written thus to our brethren to Babylon, that to them also I may attest these very things.] (2BA)
2 Baruch 85:4–6
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