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2 Maccabees 7:28

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28

I beg you, my child, to lift your eyes to the sky and the earth, and to see all things that are in it, and thus to recognize that God made them not of things that were, and that the race of men in this way comes into being.

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Verse 28. Nothing, not out of pre-existent and eternal matter. Saint Augustine Nat. boni xxvi. Romans 4:17.—So God can reduce all to nothing. Calmet. 8:18.

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