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Ordinary hands cradle a tied closed law scroll over coarse linen.
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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 2

The available numbered POB Greek working edition, retaining each record’s declared source edition and notes. Artwork interprets this book’s account. Appearance, clothing and staging are interpretive; material from 2 Maccabees is not imported.

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· Greek

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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909

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    1 Maccabees 2:48

    The Law Rescued

    A Covenant in the Wilderness · 1 Maccabees 2

    Story guide: The protected closed scroll visualizes the rescue of the law. The receding shadow is thematic, and the image does not reconstruct a particular rescue or turn the final phrase into a literal horn.

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    48And they rescued the law from the hand of the nations and from the hand of the kings, and they did not give a horn to the sinner.

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