OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 10:26

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Since as you have kept your covenants with us, and continued in our friendship, and have not joined yourselves to our enemies, we have heard of this, and are glad.

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Verse 26. Heard. He scruples not to tell a lie, for he had been informed of the contrary. verse 22. Worthington.—“He prudently chose rather to appear to find them innocent, than to make them so,” (Grot.) by granting them pardon.

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