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4 Maccabees 8:16

O wretched that we are, and exceeding senseless! when the king exhorts us, and calls us to his bounty, should we not obey him?

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O wretched that we are, and exceeding senseless! when the king exhorts us, and calls us to his bounty, should we not obey him?
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