1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| I Maccabees 2:7 | And Mathathias said: Wo is me, wherefore was I born to see the ruin of my people, and the ruin of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it is given into the hands of the enemies? | Ruin. St. Polycarp used a similar expression. (Eusebius, [History of the Church] 5:19.) |