It comments on the 2 Maccabees stories of Eleazor (a scribe) and a woman and her seven sons, who are persecuted and tortured by King Antiochus IV Epiphanes. It encourages selfish rationality - you should follow God's Hebrew law, have faith, and control your emotions (that can lead you astray) in order to resist torture, and, get a divine reward at the end.
2024-09-29
The Bible Book of 4 Maccabees
4 Maccabees isn't in most Bibles, because Jerome didn't translate its heavy and complex Greek into Latin for the Vulgate, and so it never made mainstream circulation. Only some of the oldest and most ancient Christian churches use it - most notably the Georgian Orthodox Church.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
