2 Maccabees 6:27DRA
Biblia Katolicka · DRA · Werset 27 z 31
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"Wherefore by departing manfully out of this life, I shall shew myself worthy of my old age:"
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25And so they, through my dissimulation, and for a little time of a corruptible life, should be deceived, and hereby I should bring a stain and a curse upon my old age.
26For though, for the present time, I should be delivered from the punishments of men, yet should I not escape the hand of the Almighty neither alive nor dead.
27Wherefore by departing manfully out of this life, I shall shew myself worthy of my old age:
28And I shall leave an example of fortitude to young men, if with a ready mind and constancy I suffer an honourable death, for the most venerable and most holy laws. And having spoken thus, he was forthwith carried to execution.
29And they that led him, and had been a little before more mild, were changed to wrath for the words he had spoken, which they thought were uttered out of arrogancy.