1849
A.D.
George Leo Haydock
Catholic
1774–1849
“Seven. The last was not yet dead: but he was before this was written, so that the mother’s praise was perfect. (Haydock)”
The interpretation timeline
2 Maccabees 7:20
Douay-Rheims
Now the mother was to be admired above measure, and worthy to be remembered by good men, who beheld seven sons slain in the space of one day, and bore it with a good courage, for the hope that she had in God:
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Post-Reformation
c. 1650 – 1900Modern · 1953 →
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