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  • For example, two women were charged with having circumcised their children. They were paraded publicly round the town, with their babies hung at their breasts, and then hurled over the city wall. (2 Maccabees 6, 10)

  • Antiochus thought he was being ridiculed, suspecting insult in the tone of her voice; and as the youngest was still alive he appealed to him not with mere words but with promises on oath to make him both rich and happy if he would abandon the traditions of his ancestors; he would make him his Friend and entrust him with public office. (2 Maccabees 7, 24)

  • keeping before their eyes the outrage committed by them against the holy place and the infamous and scornful treatment inflicted on the city, not to mention the destruction of their traditional way of life. (2 Maccabees 8, 17)

  • His comrade Philip brought back his body, and then, fearing Antiochus' son, withdrew to Egypt, to the court of Ptolemy Philometor. (2 Maccabees 9, 29)

  • he went to King Demetrius in about the year one hundred and fifty-one and presented him with a golden crown and a palm, together with the traditional olive branches from the Temple; there, for that day, he let the matter rest. (2 Maccabees 14, 4)

  • Anyone of discretion acts by the light of knowledge, the fool parades his folly. (Proverbs 13, 16)

  • Whoever robs father and mother saying, 'Nothing wrong in that!' is comrade for a brigand. (Proverbs 28, 24)

  • I loved her more than health or beauty, preferred her to the light, since her radiance never sleeps. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 10)

  • she accompanied him down into the pit, nor did she abandon him in his chains until she had brought him the sceptre of a kingdom and authority over his despotic masters, thus exposing as liars those who had traduced him, and giving him honour everlasting. (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 14)

  • And thus, gradually, you correct those who offend; you admonish and remind them of how they have sinned, so that they may abstain from evil and trust in you, Lord. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 2)

  • but, by carrying out your sentences gradually, you gave them a chance to repent, although you knew that they were inherently evil, innately wicked, (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 10)

  • But they will be justly punished for this double crime: for degrading the concept of God by adhering to idols; and for wickedly perjuring themselves in contempt for what is holy. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 30)


"Onde há mais sacrifício, há mais generosidade." São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina