2 Maccabees 12:41 (WEB)
All therefore, blessing the ways of the Lord, the righteous Judge, who makes manifest the things that are hidden,
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“When they offered stealthily some interdicted sacrifices, and after they had fallen in the battle, we find,” says he, “that this remedial measure was at once resorted to by the priests,—sacrifices were offered up to liberate their souls, which had been bound by the guilt of their forbidden conduct.”” — editor's note: This is a loose reference to the narrative in 2 Macc. xii. 39–45.
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