4 Maccabees Chapter 18: World English Bible Classic

Deuterocanon · Apocrypha · Traducción al español en preparación

Traducción al español en preparación

¹ O Israelite children, descendants of the seed of Abraham, obey this law and in every way be religious, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

² knowing that religious reasoning is lord of the emotions, and those not only inward but outward. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³ Therefore those people who gave up their bodies to pains for the sake of religion were not only admired by men, but were deemed worthy of a divine portion. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴ The nation through them obtained peace, and having renewed the observance of the law in their country, drove the enemy out of the land. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵ The tyrant Antiochus was both punished on earth, and is punished now that he is dead; for when he was quite unable to compel the Israelites to adopt foreign customs, and to desert the manner of life of their fathers, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶ then, departing from Jerusalem, he made war against the Persians. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷ The righteous mother of the seven children spoke also as follows to her offspring: “I was a pure virgin, and didn’t go beyond my father’s house, but I took care of the rib from which woman was made. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁸ No destroyer of the desert or ravisher of the plain injured me, nor did the destructive, deceitful snake make plunder of my chaste virginity. I remained with my husband during the time of my maturity. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁹ When these, my children, arrived at maturity, their father died. He was blessed! For having sought out a life of fertility in children, he was not grieved with a period of loss of children. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁰ He used to teach you, when yet with you, the law and the prophets. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹¹ He used to read to you about the slaying of Abel by Cain, the offering up of Isaac, and the imprisonment of Joseph. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹² He used to tell you of the zealous Phinehas, and informed you of Ananias, Azarias, and Misael in the fire. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹³ He used to glorify Daniel, who was in the den of lions, and pronounce him blessed. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁴ He used to remind you of the scripture of Esaias, which says, “Even if you pass through the fire, it won’t burn you.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁵ He chanted to you David, the hymn writer, who says, “Many are the afflictions of the just.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁶ He declared the proverbs of Solomon, who says, “He is a tree of life to all those who do His will.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁷ He used to confirm what Ezekiel said: “Will these dry bones live?” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁸ For he didn’t forget the song which Moses taught, proclaiming, “I will kill, and I will make alive.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁹ This is our life and the length of our days. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁰ O that bitter, and yet not bitter, day when the bitter tyrant of the Greeks, quenching fire with fire in his cruel caldrons, brought with boiling rage the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the rack, and to all his torments! (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²¹ He pierced the balls of their eyes, and cut out their tongues, and put them to death with varied tortures. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²² Therefore divine retribution pursued and will pursue the pestilent wretch. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²³ But the children of Abraham, with their victorious mother, are assembled together to the choir of their father, having received pure and immortal souls from God. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁴ To him be glory forever and ever. Amen. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)