Notes on Second Maccabees (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))
15:39 If not so perfectly, etc: This is not said with regard to the truth of the narration; but with regard to the style and manner of writing: which in the sacred penmen is not always the most accurate. See St. Paul, 2 Cor. 11.6.
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