Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 17:24
Source: Septuagint
Original
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.
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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.
23For the tyrant Antiochus, looking to their manly virtue, and to their endurance in torture, proclaimed that endurance as an example to his soldiers.
— 4 Maccabees 17:24 —