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2 Maccabees 7:40 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" So he also died pure, putting his whole trust in the Lord. "

2 Maccabees 7:40

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38 and that in me and my brothers you may bring to an end the wrath of the Almighty which has been justly brought upon our whole race.”

39 But the king, falling into a rage, handled him worse than all the rest, being exasperated at his mocking.

40 So he also died pure, putting his whole trust in the Lord.

41 Last of all, after her sons, the mother died.

42 Let it then suffice to have said thus much concerning the sacrificial feasts and the extreme tortures.

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2 Maccabees 7:1

"It came to pass that seven brothers and their mother were at the king’s command taken and shamefully handled with scourges and cords, to compel them to taste of the abominable swine’s flesh."

2 Maccabees 7:2

"One of them made himself the spokesman and said, “What would you ask and learn from us? For we are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors.”"

2 Maccabees 7:3

"The king fell into a rage, and commanded that pans and caldrons be heated."

2 Maccabees 7:4

"When these were immediately heated, he gave orders to cut out the tongue of him who had been their spokesman, and to scalp him, and to cut off his extremities, with the rest of his brothers and his mother looking on."

2 Maccabees 7:5

"And when he was utterly maimed, the king gave orders to bring him to the fire, being yet alive, and to fry him in the pan. And as the smoke from the pan spread far, they and their mother also exhorted one another to die nobly, saying this:"

2 Maccabees 7:6

"“The Lord God sees, and in truth is entreated for us, as Moses declared in his song, which witnesses against the people to their faces, saying, ‘And he will have compassion on his servants.’”"

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