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Judas said, “Let it not be so that I should do this thing, to flee from them. If our time has come, let’s die in a manly way for our kindred’s sake, and not leave a cause of reproach against our honor.”
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Verse 10. Stain. Lit. “bring a crime.” Bible.—He seems to have thought God required him now to fight, and he was convinced that he could save by means of a few, which excuses him from rashness. The Church adopts his words, (Dom. iii. Oct. Mat.) and Saint Ambrose (Of. i. 41.) highly extols his bravery, in “preferring death before slavery and shame.”
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