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2 Maccabees 2:30 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" To occupy the ground, and to indulge in long discussions, and to be curious in particulars, is fitting for the first author of the history; "
2 Maccabees 2:30
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
28 leaving to the historian the exact handling of every particular, and again having no strength to fill in the outlines of our abridgement.
29 For as the masterbuilder of a new house must care for the whole structure, and again he who undertakes to decorate and paint it must seek out the things fit for its adorning; even so I think it is also with us.
30 To occupy the ground, and to indulge in long discussions, and to be curious in particulars, is fitting for the first author of the history;
31 but to strive after brevity of expression, and to avoid a labored fullness in the treatment, is to be granted to him who would bring a writing into a new form.
32 Here then let’s begin the narration, only adding this much to that which has already been said; for it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue to the history, and to abridge the history itself.
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2 Maccabees 2:1
"It is also found in the records that Jeremiah the prophet commanded those who were carried away to take some of the fire, as has been mentioned,"
2 Maccabees 2:2
"and how that the prophet charged those who were carried away, having given them the law, that they should not forget the statutes of the Lord or be led astray in their minds when they saw images of gold and silver, and their adornment."
2 Maccabees 2:3
"With other such words he exhorted them, that the law should not depart from their hearts."
2 Maccabees 2:4
"It was in the writing that the prophet, being warned by God, commanded that the tabernacle and the ark should follow with him, when he went out to the mountain where Moses had gone up and saw God’s inheritance."
2 Maccabees 2:5
"Jeremiah came and found a cave, he brought the tabernacle, the ark, and the altar of incense into it; then he sealed the entrance."
2 Maccabees 2:6
"Some of those who followed with him came there that they might mark the way, and could not find it."
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