2 Maccabees 15:3
“Then this most vngracious wretch demanded, if there were a mightie one in heauen that had commanded the Sabbath day to be kept.”
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2 Maccabees 15:3 Context
1But Nicanor hearing that Iudas and his company were in the strong places about Samaria, resolued without any danger to set vpon them on þe sabbath day. 2Neuertheles, the Iewes that were compelled to go with him, said, O destroy not so cruelly and barbarously, but giue honour to that day, which he that seeth all things, hath honoured with holinesse aboue [other dayes.] 3Then this most vngracious wretch demanded, if there were a mightie one in heauen that had commanded the Sabbath day to be kept. 4And when they said, There is in heauen a liuing Lord, and mightie, who commanded the seuenth day to be kept, 5Then said the other, And I also am mightie vpon earth, & I cōmand to take armes, and to do the kings busines: yet he obteined not to haue his wicked wil done.
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Then the most ungracious wretch demanded, if there were a Mighty one in heaven, that had commanded the sabbath day to be kept.
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