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2 Maccabees 14:40-42
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
2 Maccabees 14:40-42
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
40 for he thought that by arresting[a] him he would do them an injury. 41 When the troops were about to capture the tower and were forcing the door of the courtyard, they ordered that fire be brought and the doors burned. Being surrounded, Razis[b] fell upon his own sword, 42 preferring to die nobly rather than to fall into the hands of sinners and suffer outrages unworthy of his noble birth.
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- 2 Maccabees 14:40 Meaning of Gk uncertain
- 2 Maccabees 14:41 Gk he
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