2 Maccabees 6:13
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It is a sign of great kindness that those Jews who acted immorally weren’t left alone for very long but experienced punishments immediately.
For it is a token of great goodness when sinners are not suffered to go on in their ways for a long time, but are presently punished.
In fact, it is a sign of kindness to punish a person immediately for his sins, rather than to wait a long time.
It is, in fact, a sign of great kindness to punish the impious promptly instead of letting them go for long.
Indeed, it is a sign of great benevolence when sinners are punished promptly rather than having their wrongful acts escape retribution for a period of time.
In fact, it is a sign of great kindness not to let the impious alone for long, but to punish them immediately.
In fact, it is a sign of great kindness not to let the impious alone for long, but to punish them immediately.
In fact, it is a sign of great kindness not to let the impious alone for long, but to punish them immediately.
In fact, it is a sign of great kindness not to let the impious alone for long but to punish them immediately.
In fact, not to let the impious alone for long, but to punish them immediately, is a sign of great kindness.
In fact, not to let the impious alone for long, but to punish them immediately, is a sign of great kindness.
For why for to not suffer by much time sinners for to do of sentence, [or doom], but anon (or at once) for to give vengeances, is the showing of (his) great benefice.
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