OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 4:16

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For this reason, severe calamity overtook them. The men whose ways of living they earnestly followed, and to whom they desired to be made like in all things, these became their enemies and punished them.

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Verse 16. Dangerous. Greek “misery, and those whose institutes they zealously adopted, and whom in all they wished to resemble, the same they found their enemies and chastisers.” Bible.—God thus punished ( Calmet.) their perfidy. Bible.

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