2 Maccabees 6:13

2 Maccabees 6:13 Context

¹¹And others that had run together into caues neere by, to keepe the Sabbath day secretly, being discouered to Philip, were all burnt together, because they made a conscience to helpe themselues, for the honour of the most sacred day. ¹²Now I beseech those that reade this booke, that they be not discouraged for these calamities, but that they iudge those punishments not to be for destruction, but for a chastening of our nation. ¹³For it is a token of his great goodnesse, when wicked doers are not suffered any longtime, but forthwith punished. ¹⁴For not as with other nations whom the Lord patiently forbeareth to punish, till they be come to the fulnesse of their sinnes, so dealeth he with vs, ¹⁵Lest that being come to the height of sinne, afterwards hee should take vengeance of vs.

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