OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 15:11

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Arming each one of them, not so much with the sure defense of shields and spears as with the encouragement of good words, and moreover relating to them a dream worthy to be believed, he made them all exceedingly glad.

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Verse 11. Not with, not only, or so much with, and so forth Bible.—Dream. He knew it was supernatural ( Calmet.) by God’s light, as S. Joseph did. Matthew 1:20. Worthington.

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