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For your mercy toward me is great, and you have rescued my soul from the lower part of Hell. (Psalms 85, 13)
Instead of choosing to act on my behalf, they detracted me. But I gave myself to prayer. (Psalms 108, 4)
And he was renowned, even to the utmost part of the earth, and he gathered together those who were perishing. (1 Maccabees 3, 9)
And so, the king took the remaining part of the army, and he went forth from Antioch, the city of his kingdom, in the one hundred and forty-seventh year. And he crossed over the river Euphrates, and he traveled through the upper regions. (1 Maccabees 3, 37)
And while Judas was speaking these words, behold, a certain part of them appeared, looking out from the mountain. (1 Maccabees 4, 19)
And part of the king’s army was divided to the high mountains, and the other part to the low places. And they went forth with order and caution. (1 Maccabees 6, 40)
And Judas saw that the stronger part of the army of Bacchides was on the right side, and all the steadfast in heart came together with him. (1 Maccabees 9, 14)
And the right part was crushed by them, and he pursued them even to Mount Azotus. (1 Maccabees 9, 15)
In truth, a certain part of that which impious Simon had reported belonged to Hyrcanus, son of Tobias, a very eminent man. But the entire amount was four hundred talents of silver and two hundred of gold. (2 Maccabees 3, 11)
And, with the Almighty as their helper, they slew over nine thousand men. Furthermore, having wounded and disabled the greater part of the army of Nicanor, they forced them to take flight. (2 Maccabees 8, 24)
choosing to prefer to die nobly rather than to become subject to sinners, or to suffer unworthy injustices against his birth. (2 Maccabees 14, 42)
But the impious, with hands and words, have called death to them, and, esteeming it a friend, they have fallen away and have made a covenant with death, because they deserved to take part in it. (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 16)
