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🗓️ 2 November 2022
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Fr. Mike draws our attention to the descriptions of wisdom found in our readings for today and reflects on the beauty of wisdom’s feminine nature. He also discusses the death of Antiochus Epiphanes and offers two perspectives on reconciling God’s role in suffering. Today’s readings are from 2 Maccabees 9, Wisdom 7-8, and Proverbs 25:1-3.
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0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Fr. Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Bible in a Year Podcast, where |
0:07.7 | we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. The Bible in a Year |
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0:19.1 | and how we fit into that story today, it is day 306, we're reading second book of the |
0:22.8 | Maccabees, chapter 9, as well as Wisdom chapters 7 and 8. Proverbs, chapter 25, verses 1 through |
0:28.3 | three, as always the Bible translation I'm reading from is the revised and diversion, the |
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0:42.7 | episodes and daily updates because today is day 306, you have 59 days. God's math, why is |
0:50.8 | it so hard? It's not that hard. In St. 3, 06, we're reading second Maccabees, chapter 9, |
0:55.2 | Wisdom 7 and 8, Proverbs, chapter 25, verses 1 through 3. |
1:01.1 | The second book of the Maccabees, chapter 9, the last campaign of Antiochus Epiphanies. |
1:07.0 | About that time, as it happened, Antiochus had retreated in disorder from the region of |
1:10.8 | Persia, for he had entered the city called Persepolis, and attempted to rob the temples |
1:15.4 | and control the city. Therefore, the people rushed to the rescue with arms and Antiochus |
1:20.0 | and his men were defeated with the result that Antiochus was put to flight by the inhabitants |
1:24.8 | and beat a shameful retreat. While he was in Ekbatana, news came to him of what happened |
1:29.9 | to Nikonor and the forces of Timothy. Transported with rage, he conceived the idea of turning |
1:35.0 | upon the Jews the injury done by those who had put him to flight, so he ordered his |
1:38.9 | charioteer to drive without stopping until he completed the journey. But the judgment of |
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