2 Maccabees 9:13

2 Maccabees 9:13 Context

¹¹Here therefore being plagued, hee began to leaue off his great pride, and to come to the knowledge [of himselfe] by the scourge of God, his paine encreasing euery moment. ¹²And when hee himselfe could not abide his owne smell; hee saide these wordes: It is meete to bee subiect vnto God, and that a man that is mortall, should not proudly thinke of himselfe, as if he were God. ¹³This wicked person vowed also vnto the Lord, (who now no more would haue mercy vpon him) saying thus: ¹⁴That the holy citie (to the which hee was going in haste to lay it euen with the ground, & to make it a common burying place) he would set at liberty. ¹⁵And as touching the Iewes, whom hee had iudged not worthy so much as to be buried, but to be cast out with their children to be deuoured of the foules, and wild beasts, he would make them al equals to þ^e citizens of Athens,

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