Genesis:18:27-28

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* And Abraham answered and said , Behold now , I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord , which [am (note :)By this we learn , that the nearer we approach to God , the more our miserable estate appears , and the more we are humbled .(:note ) but ] dust and ashes : * If there shall lacke fiue of fiftie righteous , wilt thou destroy all the citie for fiue ? And he saide , If I finde there fiue and fourtie , I will not destroy it .

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