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2 Maccabees 6:30-31
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Maccabees 6:30-31
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
30 When he was about to die under the blows, he groaned aloud and said: “It is clear to the Lord in his holy knowledge that, though I might have been saved from death, I am enduring terrible sufferings in my body under this beating, but in my soul I am glad to suffer these things because I fear him.”(A)
31 So in this way he died, leaving in his death an example of nobility and a memorial of courage, not only to the young but to the great body of his nation.(B)
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