2 Maccabees 6:13
12. Now I beseech those that read this book, that they be not discouraged for these calamities, but that they judge those punishments not to be for destruction, but for a chastening of our nation.13. For it is a token of his great goodness, when wicked doers are not suffered any long time, but forthwith punished.14. For not as with other nations, whom the Lord patiently forbeareth to punish, till they be come to the fulness of their sins, so dealeth he with us,
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