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OF JESUS OF NAZARETH.
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wise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

8 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.

9 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house:

10 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

11 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

12 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.

13 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

XLI.

Precepts to be Always Ready.

Then said he unto the disciples, it is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!