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For not as with other nations, whom the Lord patiently forbeareth to punish, till they be come to the fulness of their sins, so dealeth he with us,
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Lest that, being come to the height of sin, afterwards he should take vengeance of us.
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And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: and though he punish with adversity, yet doth he never forsake his people.
17
But let this that we at spoken be for a warning unto us. And now will we come to the declaring of the matter in a few words.
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Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, an aged man, and of a well favoured countenance, was constrained to open his mouth, and to eat swine's flesh.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.