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2 Maccabees 6:26 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For even if for the present time I would remove from me the punishment of men, yet whether I live or die, I wouldn’t escape the hands of the Almighty. "

2 Maccabees 6:26

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24 “For it doesn’t become our years to dissemble,” he said, “that many of the young should suppose that Eleazar, the man of ninety years, had gone over to an alien religion;

25 and so they, by reason of my deception, and for the sake of this brief and momentary life, would be led astray because of me, and I defile and disgrace myself in my old age.

26 For even if for the present time I would remove from me the punishment of men, yet whether I live or die, I wouldn’t escape the hands of the Almighty.

27 Therefore, by bravely parting with my life now, I will show myself worthy of my old age,

28 and leave behind a noble example to the young to die willingly and nobly a glorious death for the revered and holy laws.” When he had said these words, he went immediately to the instrument of torture.

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2 Maccabees 6:1

"Not long after this, the king sent out an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and not to live by the laws of God,"

2 Maccabees 6:2

"and also to pollute the sanctuary in Jerusalem and to call it by the name of Olympian Zeus, and to call the sanctuary in Gerizim by the name of Zeus the Protector of foreigners, even as the people who lived in that place did."

2 Maccabees 6:3

"The visitation of this evil was harsh and utterly grievous."

2 Maccabees 6:4

"For the temple was filled with debauchery and reveling by the heathen, who dallied with prostitutes, and had intercourse with women within the sacred precincts, and moreover brought inside things that were not appropriate."

2 Maccabees 6:5

"The altar was filled with those abominable things which had been prohibited by the laws."

2 Maccabees 6:6

"A man could neither keep the Sabbath, nor observe the feasts of their ancestors, nor so much as confess himself to be a Jew."

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