2 Maccabees 12:44 (WEB)
For if he wasn’t expecting that those who had fallen would rise again, it would be superfluous and idle to pray for the dead.
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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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