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Having thus committed the outcome to the Creator of the world, and having exhorted his soldiers to fight bravely to the death for the laws, the Temple, the city, their country and their way of life, he encamped his army near Modein. (2 Maccabees 13, 14)
Onias began to speak: 'This is a man', he said, 'who loves his brothers and prays much for the people and the holy city-Jeremiah, the prophet of God.' (2 Maccabees 15, 14)
Encouraged by the noble words of Judas, which had the power to inspire valour and give the young the spirit of mature men, they decided not to entrench themselves in a camp, but bravely to take the offensive and, in hand-to-hand fighting, to commit the result to the fortune of war, since the city, their holy religion and the Temple were in danger. (2 Maccabees 15, 17)
Those left behind in the city felt a similar anxiety, alarmed as they were about the forthcoming encounter in the open country. (2 Maccabees 15, 19)
So ends the episode of Nicanor, and as, since then, the city has remained in the possession of the Hebrews, I shall bring my own work to an end here too. (2 Maccabees 15, 37)
she calls out at the street corners, she delivers her message at the city gates. (Proverbs 1, 21)
by the gates, at the entrance to the city, on the access-roads, she cries out, (Proverbs 8, 3)
She has despatched her maidservants and proclaimed from the heights above the city, (Proverbs 9, 3)
She sits at the door of her house, on a throne high up in the city, (Proverbs 9, 14)
When the upright prosper the city rejoices, when the wicked are ruined there is a shout of joy. (Proverbs 11, 10)
A city is raised on the blessing of the honest, and demolished by the mouth of the wicked. (Proverbs 11, 11)
Better an equable person than a hero, someone with self-mastery than one who takes a city. (Proverbs 16, 32)
