2 Maccabees 2:28
27. Even as it is no ease unto him that prepareth a banquet, and seeketh the benefit of others: yet for the pleasuring of many we will undertake gladly this great pains;28. Leaving to the author the exact handling of every particular, and labouring to follow the rules of an abridgement.29. For as the master builder of a new house must care for the whole building; but he that undertaketh to set it out, and paint it, must seek out fit things for the adorning thereof: even so I think it is with us.
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