2 Maccabees 9:10 (WEB)
The man who a little before supposed himself to touch the stars of heaven, no one could endure to carry because of his intolerable stench.
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“For the judgment came upon Antiochus, a judgment from heaven; and he became sick with a grievous and evil sickness, and on account of the smell of him as he rotted, no man could approach him, for worms were crawling and falling from him and eating his flesh because he oppressed the worm Jacob.” — editor's note: 2 Macc. ix. 5–12.
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