Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 17:23
Source: Septuagint
Original
23For the tyrant Antiochus, looking to their manly virtue, and to their endurance in torture, proclaimed that endurance as an example to his soldiers.
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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.
— 4 Maccabees 17:23 —
24And they proved to be to him noble and brave for land battles and sieges; and he conquered and stormed the towns of all his enemies.