OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 6:26

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For even if for the present time I would remove from me the punishment of men, yet whether I live or die, I wouldn’t escape the hands of the Almighty.

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Verse 26. Dead. Nothing could be more express for the torments after death. As the time of the Messias drew near, these truths were more developed. Calmet. 7:9. Wisd. 5:16. Psalms 1:6. Calmet. Grot. Matthew 12:32.

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