OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 6:24

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“For it doesn’t become our years to dissemble,” he said, “that many of the young should suppose that Eleazar, the man of ninety years, had gone over to an alien religion;

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Verse 24. Age. “Old age ought to be the haven, not the shipwreck, of a former life.” Saint Ambrose de Jacob. Worthington.

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