2 Maccabees 15:3

2 Maccabees 15:3 Context

¹But Nicanor hearing that Iudas and his company were in the strong places about Samaria, resolued without any danger to set vpon them on þ^e sabbath day. ²Neuertheles, the Iewes that were compelled to go with him, said, O destroy not so cruelly and barbarously, but giue honour to that day, which he that seeth all things, hath honoured with holinesse aboue [other dayes.] ³Then this most vngracious wretch demanded, if there were a mightie one in heauen that had commanded the Sabbath day to be kept. ⁴And when they said, There is in heauen a liuing Lord, and mightie, who commanded the seuenth day to be kept, ⁵Then said the other, And I also am mightie vpon earth, & I cōmand to take armes, and to do the kings busines: yet he obteined not to haue his wicked wil done.

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