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2 Maccabees 15:3-5
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
2 Maccabees 15:3-5
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
3 the thrice-accursed wretch asked if there were a sovereign in heaven who had commanded the keeping of the sabbath day. 4 When they declared, ‘It is the living Lord himself, the Sovereign in heaven, who ordered us to observe the seventh day,’ 5 he replied, ‘But I am a sovereign also, on earth, and I command you to take up arms and finish the king’s business.’ Nevertheless, he did not succeed in carrying out his abominable design.
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