2 Maccabees 6:11DRA
Bibbia Cattolica · DRA · Versetto 11 di 31
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"And others that had met together in caves that were near, and were keeping the sabbath day privately, being discovered by Philip, were burnt with fire, because they made a conscience to help themselves with their hands, by reason of the religious observance of the day."
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9And whosoever would not conform themselves to the ways of the Gentiles, should be put to death: then was misery to be seen.
10For two women were accused to have circumcised their children: whom, when they had openly led about through the city with the infants hanging at their breasts, they threw down headlong from the walls.
11And others that had met together in caves that were near, and were keeping the sabbath day privately, being discovered by Philip, were burnt with fire, because they made a conscience to help themselves with their hands, by reason of the religious observance of the day.
12Now I beseech those that shall read this book, that they be not shocked at these calamities, but that they consider the things that happened, not as being for the destruction, but for the correction of our nation.
13For it is a token of great goodness when sinners are not suffered to go on in their ways for a long time, but are presently punished.