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2 Maccabees 4:15-17
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
2 Maccabees 4:15-17
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
15 disdaining the honors prized by their ancestors and putting the highest value upon Greek forms of prestige. 16 For this reason heavy disaster overtook them, and those whose ways of living they admired and wished to imitate completely became their enemies and punished them. 17 It is no light thing to show irreverence to the divine laws—a fact that later events will make clear.
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