OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 3:21

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Then it was pitiful to see the multitude prostrating themselves all mixed together, and the anxiety of the high priest in his great distress.

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Verse 21. Expectation. Greek “prostration.” Bible.—It was not unusual to see the Jews fall prostrate on such occasions, to move God or the enemy to pity, verse 15. Judith 4:9. Calmet.

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