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2 Maccabees 5:4-6
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
2 Maccabees 5:4-6
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
4 Wherefore all men prayed that these prodigies might turn to good.
5 Now when there was gone forth a false rumour, as though Antiochus had been dead, Jason taking with him no fewer than a thousand men, suddenly assaulted the city: and though the citizens ran together to the wall, the city at length was taken, and Menelaus fled into the castle.
6 But Jason slew his countrymen without mercy, not considering that prosperity against one's own kindred is a very great evil, thinking they had been enemies, and not citizens, whom he conquered.
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Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)
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