For in the case of the other nations the Sovereign Lord does with longsuffering forbear, until that he punish them when they have attained to the full measure of their sins; but not so judged he as touching us,
⛓ Read 2 Maccabees 6 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Explains that God waits 'until they have reached the full measure of their sins' before punishing — a deuterocanonical articulation of the same measure-of-iniquity theology behind v. 16. Faint as a direct source but confirms the idea's currency in second-temple Judaism (Availability criterion).
Low confidenceGod waiting 'until they have reached the full measure of their sins' parallels the filling-up of the fathers' measure (v32).
Low confidence