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Hebrews 11:35 referencing 2
Maccabees 7:7
2
Maccabees 7: 1- 7, 20-23
“It happened also that seven brothers and their mother were
arrested and were being compelled by the king, under
torture
with whips and cords, to partake of unlawful swine’s flesh.
One of them, acting as their spokesman, said, “ ... For we
are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our
fathers.”
3 The king fell into a rage, and gave orders that pans and
caldrons be heated. 4 These were heated immediately, and he
commanded that the tongue of their spokesman be cut out and
that they scalp him and cut off his hands and feet, while
the rest of the brothers and the mother looked on. 5 When he
was utterly helpless, the king ordered them to take him to
the fire, still breathing, and to fry him in a pan. The
smoke from the pan spread widely, but the brothers and their
mother encouraged one another to die nobly, saying, 6 “The
Lord God is watching over us and in truth has compassion on
us, as Moses declared…[7] After the first brother had died
in this way, they brought forward the second for their
sport. They tore off the skin of his head with the hair, and
asked him, “Will you eat rather than have your body punished
limb by limb? ... [20] The
mother was especially admirable
and worthy of honorable memory. Though she saw her
seven sons perish within a single day, she bore it with good
courage because of her hope in the Lord.
She encouraged each of them … "…
Therefore the
Creator of the world,
who shaped the beginning of man and devised the origin of
all things,
will in his mercy give life and breath back to you again, since you now forget yourselves for the sake of
his laws.”
Hebrews 11:35
“Women received their dead by resurrection.
Some were
tortured,
refusing to accept release, that they might
rise again to a better life.”
Wisdom of Solomon 13:1-19 and 14:1-31
“For all men who were ignorant of God were
foolish by nature;
and they were unable from the good things that are seen to
know him who exists,
nor did they recognize the craftsman while paying heed to
his works; 2
but they supposed that either fire or wind or swift air,
or the circle of the stars, or turbulent water,or the
luminaries
of heaven were the gods that rule the world. …
and they trust in what they see, because the things that
are seen are beautiful. 8 Yet again, not even they are to be
excused;
9 for if they had the power to know so much
that
they could investigate the world,
how did they fail to find sooner the Lord of these things?
10 But miserable, with their hopes set on dead things, are
the men
who give the name “gods” to the works of men’s hands,
gold and silver fashioned with skill,and likenesses of
animals …
17 When he prays about possessions and his marriage and
children,
he is not ashamed to address a lifeless thing.
18 For health he appeals to a thing that is weak;
for life he prays to a thing that is dead …”
Wisdom of Solomon 14:1-31
12 “For the idea of making idols was the beginning
of fornication,
and the invention of them was the corruption of life,
…
19 For he, perhaps wishing to please his ruler,
skilfully forced the likeness to take more beautiful form, 20
and the multitude, attracted by the charm of his work, now
regarded as an object of
worship the one whom shortly before they had honored as a
man…
24
they no longer keep either their lives or their marriages
pure,
but they either treacherously kill one another, or grieve
one another by adultery, and all is a raging riot of blood
and murder, theft and deceit, corruption, faithlessness,
tumult, perjury, confusion over what is good, forgetfulness
of favors, pollution of souls, sex perversion, disorder in
marriage, adultery, and debauchery.
27
For the worship of idols not to be named is the beginning
and cause and end of every evil..”
Romans
1:19-32
“… So they are without excuse; 21 for although they
knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to
him, but
they became futile in their thinking and their senseless
minds were darkened.22 Claiming to be wise, they became
fools,23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for
images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or
reptiles.
24
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to
impurity,
to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,25
because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and
worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator,
who is blessed for ever! Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable
passions. … and the men likewise gave up natural relations
with women and were consumed with passion for one another,
men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in
their own persons the due penalty for their error.
28
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave
them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.29 They were
filled with all manner of
wickedness,
evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife,
deceit, malignity, they are gossips,30 slanderers, haters of
God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil,
disobedient to parents,31 foolish, faithless, heartless,
ruthless.32 Though they know God’s decree that those who do
such things deserve to die, they not only do them but
approve those who practice them.”
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