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2 Maccabees 7:6

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“The Lord God sees, and in truth is entreated for us, as Moses declared in his song, which witnesses against the people to their faces, saying, ‘And he will have compassion on his servants.’”

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Verse 6. Pleasure. Lit. “be comforted,” as the Septuagint translate, ( Bible.) Deuteronomy 32:36. It may imply that God will avenge or chastise his servants, and then restore them to favour. This latter sense is here adopted. verse 35.

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Or, comforted in

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See Deuteronomy 31:21 and 32:36.

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