The same speaker says he has lain in this suffering for more than five hundred years and only now feels the free will that lets him cross to a better threshold.
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Five hundred years
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...divine justice. And I who have lain in this suffering five hundred years and more just now have felt my free will for a..."
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"...divine justice. And I who have lain in this suffering five hundred years and more just now have felt my free will for a..."
"And I, who have lain in the suffering five hundred years in war, just now have felt my free will for a better threshold...."
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