0 2 Machabees : Interpretation

God ... struck him with an incurable and an invisible plague. For as soon as he had ended these words, a dreadful pain in his bowels came upon him, and bitter torments of the inner parts. And indeed very justly, seeing he had tormented the bowels of others. 9:5

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2 Machabees : Interpretation (2)

  1. Judas sent silver to Jerusalem to be offered for the sins of the dead. (Because he hoped the dead would rise again. Otherwise there would be no reason to pray for the dead.) 12:43-44
  2. It is, therefore, a holy and wholesome thing to pray fro the dead, so they can be delivered from their sins. 12:46

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