Treasury of Scripture Knowledge After him the third was made a mocking-stock, and when he was required, he quickly put forth his tongue, and courageously stretched out his hands: 2 Maccabees 7:8But he answered in his own language, and said: I will not do it. Wherefore he also, in the next place, received the torments of the first: 2 Maccabees 7:9 And when he was at the last gasp, he said thus: Thou indeed, O most wicked man, destroyest us out of this present life: but the King of the world will raise us up, who die for his laws, in the resurrection of eternal life. 2 Maccabees 7:11 And said with confidence: These I have from heaven, but for the laws of God I now despise them, because I hope to receive them again from him. 2 Maccabees 7:12 So that the king, and they that were with him, wondered at the young man's courage, because he esteemed the torments as nothing. Context 2 Maccabees 7…9And when he was at the last gasp, he said thus: Thou indeed, O most wicked man, destroyest us out of this present life: but the King of the world will raise us up, who die for his laws, in the resurrection of eternal life. 10After him the third was made a mocking-stock, and when he was required, he quickly put forth his tongue, and courageously stretched out his hands: 11And said with confidence: These I have from heaven, but for the laws of God I now despise them, because I hope to receive them again from him.… Cross References 2 Maccabees 7:8 But he answered in his own language, and said: I will not do it. Wherefore he also, in the next place, received the torments of the first: 2 Maccabees 7:9 And when he was at the last gasp, he said thus: Thou indeed, O most wicked man, destroyest us out of this present life: but the King of the world will raise us up, who die for his laws, in the resurrection of eternal life. 2 Maccabees 7:11 And said with confidence: These I have from heaven, but for the laws of God I now despise them, because I hope to receive them again from him. 2 Maccabees 7:12 So that the king, and they that were with him, wondered at the young man's courage, because he esteemed the torments as nothing. |