2 Maccabees 12:42–46
Judas Maccabeus taking up a collection for an expiatory sin offering for fallen soldiers found wearing pagan amulets; historical basis for the Catholic doctrine of Purgatory and prayer for the dead rejected by Luther.
Judas Maccabeus taking up a collection for an expiatory sin offering for fallen soldiers found wearing pagan amulets; historical basis for the Catholic doctrine of Purgatory and prayer for the dead rejected by Luther.