Notes on Second Maccabees (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))
12:45 With godliness: Judas hoped that these men who died fighting for the cause of God and religion, might find mercy: either because they might be excused from mortal sin by ignorance; or might have repented of their sin, at least at their death.
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