Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 17:20
Source: Septuagint
Original
20These, therefore, having been sanctified through God, have been honored not only with this honor, but that also by their means the enemy did not overcome our nation;
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18through which, also, they now stand beside the divine throne, and live a blessed life.
19For Moses saith, And all the saints are under thy hands.
— 4 Maccabees 17:20 —
21and that the tyrant was punished, and their country purified.
22For they became the atonement to the sin of the nation; and the Divine Providence saved Israel, aforetime afflicted, by the blood of those pious ones, and their propitiatory death.