OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 4:15

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They despised the honors of their fathers, and valued the prestige of the Greeks best of all.

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Verse 15. Glories; the honour of being gymnasiarch, or agonothete. Calmet.—They sought after corruptible crowns, while many pay no regard to heaven. 1 Corinthians 9:25. Bible.

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