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2 Maccabees 6:12-14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Maccabees 6:12-14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Providential Significance of the Persecution
12 Now I urge those who read this book not to be depressed by such calamities but to recognize that these punishments were designed not to destroy but to discipline our people.(A) 13 In fact, it is a sign of great kindness not to let the impious alone for long but to punish them immediately. 14 For in the case of the other nations the Lord waits patiently to punish them until they have reached the full measure of their sins, but he does not deal in this way with us,(B)
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