2 Maccabees 6:12–17
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Latin
12Now I beseech those that read this book, that they be not udiscouraged for these calamities, vbut that they judge those punishments not to be for destruction, but for a chastening of our nation. 13For it is a token of his great goodness, when wicked doers are not suffered any long time, but forthwith punished. 14For not as with other nations, whom wthe Lord patiently forbeareth to punish, xtill they be come to the fulness of their sins, so dealeth he with us, 15lest that, being come to the height of sin, afterwards he should take vengeance of us. 16And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: and ythough he punish with adversity, yet doth he never forsake his people. 17But let this that we have spoken be for a zwarning unto us. And now will we come to the adeclaring of the matter in few words.
Cross references
- u1 Macc. 3. 6 (Gk.).
- vComp. Wisd. 3. 4.
- wSee Baruch 6. 6.
- xSee Gen. 15. 16.
- ySo ch. 7. 18, 32, 33.
- zRather as Wisd. 16. 11. 2 Tim. 1. 5. 2 Pet. 1. 13. & 3. 1.
- aSee ch. 2. 32.
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