1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| II Maccabees 7:27 | So bending herself towards him, mocking the cruel tyrant, she said in her own language: My son, have pity upon me, that bore thee nine months in my womb, and gave thee suck three years, and nourished thee, and brought thee up unto this age. | Three years. So long physicians judged it best for children to suck, till they could take solid meat. (Vales. lxxxiii.) (Genesis 21:8.) (Calmet) --- "Chrysippus assigns three years for the nurse." (Quint. 1:1.) |