# 2 Maccabees 9:12

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

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- Book: [2 Maccabees](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-maccabees)
- Chapter: [2 Maccabees 9](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/2-maccabees/9)
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And when he himself could not abide his own smell, he said these words, It is meet to be subject unto God, and that a man that is mortal should not proudly think of himself if he were God.