OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 2:7

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and he said, “Woe is me! Why was I born to see the destruction of my people and the destruction of the holy city, and to dwell there when it was given into the hand of the enemy, the sanctuary into the hand of foreigners?

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Verse 7. Ruin. S. Polycarp used a similar expression. Eus. verse 19.

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