2 Maccabees 9:11
“Here therefore being plagued, hee began to leaue off his great pride, and to come to the knowledge of himselfe by the scourge of God, his paine encreasing euery moment.”
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2 Maccabees 9:11 Context
9So that the wormes rose vp out of the body of this wicked man, & whiles hee liued in sorrow and paine, his flesh fell away, and the filthinesse of his smell was noysome to all his army. 10And the man that thought a little afore he could reach to the starres of heauen, no man could endure to carry for his intollerable stinke. 11Here therefore being plagued, hee began to leaue off his great pride, and to come to the knowledge [of himselfe] by the scourge of God, his paine encreasing euery moment. 12And when hee himselfe could not abide his owne smell; hee saide these wordes: It is meete to bee subiect vnto God, and that a man that is mortall, should not proudly thinke of himselfe, as if he were God. 13This wicked person vowed also vnto the Lord, (who now no more would haue mercy vpon him) saying thus:
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Here therefore, being plagued, he began to leave off his great pride, and to come to the knowledge of himself by the scourge of God, his pain increasing every moment.
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