2 Maccabees 6:15-17 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

15. Doth he also deal with us, so as to suffer our sins to come to their height, and then take vengeance on us.

16. And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: but though he chastise his people with adversity, he forsaketh them not.

17. But let this suffice in a few words for a warning to the readers. And now we must come to the narration.

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