OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 6:12

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I urge those who read this book to not be discouraged because of the calamities, but recognize that these punishments were not for the destruction, but for the chastening of our race.

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Verse 12. Now. A necessary caution for the weak in times of persecution. Worthington.—See Calmet. 7:32. Judith 8:22 and 1 B. 2:52.

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