2 Maccabees 14:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Therefore I have laid aside my ancestral glory—I mean the high priesthood—and have now come here,

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Deprived of my ancestral glory—I speak of course of the high priesthood—I have now come here,

For I also, being cheated out of the glory of my ancestors (but I speak of the high priesthood), have come here,

For I also being deprived of my ancestors' glory (I mean of the high priesthood) am now come hither:

It is their fault that I no longer hold the glorious position of High Priest, to which I am entitled by birth. And so I have come here,

Therefore, having laid aside my ancestral glory—I mean the high priesthood—I have now come here,

And so, I have given up the honorable position of high priest that has always been in my family. I have come here,