1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| II Maccabees 6:10 | *For two women were accused to have circumcised their children: whom, when they had openly led about through the city, with the infants hanging at their breasts, they threw down headlong from the walls. 1 Machabees 1:68. | Women. See 1 Machabees 1:64., etc. (Calmet) --- Besides the former massacres, (chap. 5.) four great martyrdoms are here recorded: first, of two women, with their children; second, of others keeping the sabbath; third, of Eleazar, ninety years old; and fourthly, of the seven brethren, with their mother, 2 Machabees 7. (Worthington) |