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For the tyrant Antiochus, when he saw the courage of their virtue and their endurance under the tortures, proclaimed them to his soldiers as an example for their own endurance,
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the tyrant was punished, and the homeland purified—they having become, as it were, a ransom for the sin of our nation.
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And through the blood of those devout ones and their death as an atoning sacrifice, divine Providence preserved Israel that previously had been mistreated.
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For the tyrant Antiochus, when he saw the courage of their virtue and their endurance under the tortures, proclaimed them to his soldiers as an example for their own endurance,
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and this made them brave and courageous for infantry battle and siege, and he ravaged and conquered all his enemies.
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