Holy Scripture
2 Maccabees 6:16
Source: Septuagint
Original
16And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: and though he punish with adversity, yet doth he never forsake his people.
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14For not as with other nations, whom the Lord patiently forbeareth to punish, till they be come to the fullness of their sins, so dealeth he with us,
15lest that, being come to the height of sin, afterward he should take vengeance of us.
— 2 Maccabees 6:16 —
17But let this that we have spoken be for a warning unto us. And now will we come to the declaring of the matter in a few words.
18Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, an aged man, and of a well-favored countenance, was constrained to open his mouth, and to eat swine’s flesh.