# 2 Maccabees 2:31

**Apocrypha.** Not part of the 66-book Protestant canon. Catholic and Orthodox churches accept these books as deuterocanonical.

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- Edition: kjv-apocrypha
- Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-maccabees/2/31
- Book: [2 Maccabees](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-maccabees)
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But to use brevity, and avoid much labouring of the work, is to be granted to him that will make an abridgment.