OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 7:22

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“I don’t know how you came into my womb. It wasn’t I who gave you your spirit and your life. It wasn’t I who brought into order the first elements of each one of you.

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Verse 22. Womb. This has always astonished the learned, the infant being formed often against the woman’s desire. Job 10:10. Wisd. 7:2. Saint Augustine anima i. 15. Calmet.

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Or, breath

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