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for great is the trial of soul and danger of eternal torment laid up for those who transgress the commandment of God.
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Let us arm ourselves, therefore, in the abnegation of the divine reasoning.
17
If we suffer thus, Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob will receive us, and all the fathers will commend us.
18
And as each one of the brethren was haled away, the rest exclaimed, Disgrace us not, O brother, nor falsify those who died before you.
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Now you are not ignorant of the charm of brotherhood, which the Divine and all wise Providence hath imparted through fathers to children, and hath engendered through the mother's womb.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.