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2 Maccabees 4:49 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Therefore even certain Tyrians, moved with hatred of the wickedness, provided magnificently for their burial. "

2 Maccabees 4:49

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47 He who was the cause of all the evil, Menelaus, he discharged from the accusations; but these hapless men, who, if they had pleaded even before Scythians, would have been discharged uncondemned, them he sentenced to death.

48 Those who were spokesmen for the city and the families of Israel and the holy vessels soon suffered that unrighteous penalty.

49 Therefore even certain Tyrians, moved with hatred of the wickedness, provided magnificently for their burial.

50 But Menelaus, through the covetous dealings of those who were in power, remained still in his office, growing in wickedness, established as a great conspirator against his fellow citizens.

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2 Maccabees 4:1

"The previously mentioned Simon, who had given information about the money against his country, slandered Onias, saying that it was he who had incited Heliodorus and had been the real cause of these evils."

2 Maccabees 4:2

"He dared to call him a conspirator against the state who was actually the benefactor of the city, the guardian of his fellow countrymen, and a zealot for the laws."

2 Maccabees 4:3

"When his hatred grew so great that even murders were perpetrated through one of Simon’s approved agents,"

2 Maccabees 4:4

"Onias, seeing the danger of the contention, and that Apollonius the son of Menestheus, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, was increasing Simon’s malice,"

2 Maccabees 4:5

"appealed to the king, not to be an accuser of his fellow citizens, but looking to the good of all the people, both public and private;"

2 Maccabees 4:6

"for he saw that without the king’s involvement it was impossible for the state to obtain peace any more, and that Simon would not cease from his madness."

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