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So he advanced to the ends of the earth, plundering nation after nation; the earth grew silent before him, and his ambitious heart swelled with pride. (1 Maccabees 1, 3)
As for the king's orders, we will not follow them: we shall not swerve from our own religion either to right or to left.' (1 Maccabees 2, 22)
'It is easy', Judas answered, 'for a great number to be defeated by a few; indeed, in the sight of Heaven, deliverance, whether by many or by few, is all one; (1 Maccabees 3, 18)
Simon advanced into Galilee, engaged the gentiles in several battles and swept all before him; (1 Maccabees 5, 21)
But he ridiculed them, laughed at them, defiled them and used insolent language, swearing in his rage, (1 Maccabees 7, 34)
Bacchides agreed to this, accepting his proposals and swearing never to seek occasion to harm him for the rest of his life. (1 Maccabees 9, 71)
we shall be grateful for an answer to it.' (1 Maccabees 12, 18)
but Simon gave him this answer, 'We have not taken foreign territory or any alien property but have occupied our ancestral heritage, for some time unjustly wrested from us by our enemies; (1 Maccabees 15, 33)
As regards Joppa and Gezer, which you claim, these were towns that did great harm to our people and laid waste our country; we are prepared to give a hundred talents for them.' Without so much as a word in answer, (1 Maccabees 15, 35)
the envoy went back to the king in a rage and reported on Simon's answer and his magnificence, and on everything he had seen, at which the king fell into a fury. (1 Maccabees 15, 36)
For us who have undertaken the drudgery of this abridgement, it has been no easy task but a matter of sweat and midnight oil, (2 Maccabees 2, 26)
But having taken a noble decision worthy of his years and the dignity of his great age and the well-earned distinction of his grey hairs, worthy too of his impeccable conduct from boyhood, and above all of the holy legislation established by God himself, he answered accordingly, telling them to send him at once to Hades. (2 Maccabees 6, 23)
