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4 Maccabees 18:5-7
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
4 Maccabees 18:5-7
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
5 The tyrant Antiochus was both punished on earth and is being chastised after his death. Since in no way whatever was he able to compel the Israelites to become pagans and to abandon their ancestral customs, he left Jerusalem and marched against the Persians.
The Mother’s Address to Her Children
6 The mother of seven sons expressed also these principles to her children: 7 ‘I was a pure virgin and did not go outside my father’s house; but I guarded the rib from which woman was made.[a]
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- 4 Maccabees 18:7 Gk the rib that was built
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