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2 Maccabees 15:9
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 15:9
New Catholic Bible
9 He encouraged them by citing the Law and the Prophets,[a] and by reminding them of the struggles they had already survived in the past, he filled them with fresh enthusiasm.
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- 2 Maccabees 15:9 The Law and the Prophets were now regarded as Scripture and known as the “sacred books” (1 Mac 12:9). Not all the other Books had been collected at this time (see Prologue to Wisdom of Ben Sira: “the Law . . . , the Prophets, and the rest of the Books”).
