Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Maccabees 12:39

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 338, footnote 2 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise on the Soul and its Origin. (HTML)

Book II (HTML)

Victor ‘Decides’ That Oblations Should Be Offered Up for Those Who Die Unbaptized. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2416 (In-Text, Margin)

... to writing, and chastise himself with the most wholesome discipline of repentance. “Now it is,” says he; “on this example of the Maccabees who fell in battle that I ground the necessity of doing this. When they offered stealthily some interdicted sacrifices, and after they had fallen in the battle, we find,” says he, “that this remedial measure was at once resorted to by the priests,—sacrifices were offered up to liberate their souls, which had been bound by the guilt of their forbidden conduct.”[2 Maccabees 12:39-45] But he says all this, as if (according to his reading of the story) those atoning sacrifices were offered up for uncircumcised persons, as he has decided that these sacrifices of ours must be offered up for unbaptized persons. For circumcision was ...