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These, therefore, having been sanctified through God, have been honoured not only with this honour, but that also by their means the enemy did not overcome our nation;
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through which, also, they now stand beside the divine throne, and live a blessed life.
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For Moses saith, And all the saints are under thine hands.
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These, therefore, having been sanctified through God, have been honoured not only with this honour, but that also by their means the enemy did not overcome our nation;
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and that the tyrant was punished, and their country purified.
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For they became the ransom to the sin of the nation; and the Divine Providence saved Israel, aforetime afflicted, by the blood of those pious ones, and the propitiatory death.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.