Also, there is a concept that because there are only a few REAL tzaddikim, (as in never do any aveiros and dont have a yetzer hara) then Hashem had to spread them out through all the generations so there would be people to keep the world in existence for. so when a tzaddik is called a gadol hador, it can be saying that he is a person in the generation that in his zechus, Hashem keeps the world in existence.
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