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The Prophet Jeremiah, after Michelangelo, Giorgio Ghisi

2 Maccabees 7:14

Giorgio Ghisi, The Prophet Jeremiah, after Michelangelo, 1570s · Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0Giorgio Ghisi, The Prophet Jeremiah, after Michelangelo, 1570s, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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2 Maccabees 7:14 (WEB)

Being near to death he said this: “It is good to die at the hands of men and look for the hope which is given by God, that we will be raised up again by him. For as for you, you will have no resurrection to life.”

Catechism · 1

  • §992Article 11 · "I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body"Read at vatican.va

    “One cannot but choose to die at the hands of men and to cherish the hope that God gives of being raised again by him.” — Catechism footnote: 2 Macc 7:14; cf. 7:29; Dan 12:1-13.

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Cross-references · 2

  • Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.18.

  • Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.18.

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