2 Maccabees 6:12–17
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Latin
Providential Significance of the Persecution
12Now I urge those who read this book not to be depressed by such calamities but to recognize that these punishments were designed not to destroy but to discipline our people.* 13In fact, it is a sign of great kindness not to let the impious alone for long but to punish them immediately. 14For in the case of the other nations the Lord waits patiently to punish them until they have reached the full measure of their sins, but he does not deal in this way with us,* 15in order that he may not take vengeance on us afterward when our sins have reached their height. 16Therefore he never withdraws his mercy from us. Although he disciplines us with calamities, he does not forsake his own people.* 17Let what we have said serve as a reminder; we must go on briefly with the story.*
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