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2 Maccabees 4:15-17
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
2 Maccabees 4:15-17
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
15 disdaining the honors prized by their fathers and putting the highest value upon Greek forms of prestige. 16 For this reason heavy disaster overtook them, and those whose ways of living they admired and wished to imitate completely became their enemies and punished them. 17 For it is no light thing to show irreverence to the divine laws—a fact which later events will make clear.
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