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This is how he died, leaving in his death a model of courage and an unforgettable example of virtue not only for the young but for the whole nation. (2 Maccabees 6, 31)
he said: "Since you have power among men, mortal though you are, do what you please. But do not think that our nation is forsaken by God. (2 Maccabees 7, 16)
Like my brothers, I offer up my body and my life for our ancestral laws, imploring God to show mercy soon to our nation, and by afflictions and blows to make you confess that he alone is God. (2 Maccabees 7, 37)
Through me and my brothers, may there be an end to the wrath of the Almighty that has justly fallen on our whole nation." (2 Maccabees 7, 38)
By public edict and decree they prescribed that the whole Jewish nation should celebrate these days every year. (2 Maccabees 10, 8)
when they were about to be deprived of their law, their country, and their holy temple; and not to allow this nation, which had just begun to revive, to be subjected again to blasphemous Gentiles. (2 Maccabees 13, 11)
first, out of my genuine concern for the king's interests, and secondly, out of consideration for my own countrymen, since our entire nation is suffering great affliction from the unreasonable conduct of the people just mentioned. (2 Maccabees 14, 8)
With these words he went away. The priests stretched out their hands toward heaven, calling upon the unfailing defender of our nation in these words: (2 Maccabees 14, 34)
Virtue exalts a nation, but sin is a people's disgrace. (Proverbs 14, 34)
The holy people and blameless race--it was she who delivered them from the nation that oppressed them. (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 15)
For when the lawless thought to enslave the holy nation, shackled with darkness, fettered by the long night, they lay confined beneath their own roofs as exiles from the eternal providence. (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 2)
Over this crossed the whole nation sheltered by your hand, after they beheld stupendous wonders. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 8)
