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And see that you, who have been scourged by heaven, report to all men the majestic power of God." Having said this they vanished. (2 Maccabees 3, 34)
And he bore testimony to all men of the deeds of the supreme God, which he had seen with his own eyes. (2 Maccabees 3, 36)
For he who has his dwelling in heaven watches over that place himself and brings it aid, and he strikes and destroys those who come to do it injury." (2 Maccabees 3, 39)
Onias recognized that the rivalry was serious and that Apollonius, the son of Menestheus and governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, was intensifying the malice of Simon. (2 Maccabees 4, 4)
When Seleucus died and Antiochus who was called Epiphanes succeeded to the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias obtained the high priesthood by corruption, (2 Maccabees 4, 7)
In addition to this he promised to pay one hundred and fifty more if permission were given to establish by his authority a gymnasium and a body of youth for it, and to enrol the men of Jerusalem as citizens of Antioch. (2 Maccabees 4, 9)
He set aside the existing royal concessions to the Jews, secured through John the father of Eupolemus, who went on the mission to establish friendship and alliance with the Romans; and he destroyed the lawful ways of living and introduced new customs contrary to the law. (2 Maccabees 4, 11)
For with alacrity he founded a gymnasium right under the citadel, and he induced the noblest of the young men to wear the Greek hat. (2 Maccabees 4, 12)
There was such an extreme of Hellenization and increase in the adoption of foreign ways because of the surpassing wickedness of Jason, who was ungodly and no high priest, (2 Maccabees 4, 13)
that the priests were no longer intent upon their service at the altar. Despising the sanctuary and neglecting the sacrifices, they hastened to take part in the unlawful proceedings in the wrestling arena after the call to the discus, (2 Maccabees 4, 14)
disdaining the honors prized by their fathers and putting the highest value upon Greek forms of prestige. (2 Maccabees 4, 15)
the vile Jason sent envoys, chosen as being Antiochian citizens from Jerusalem, to carry three hundred silver drachmas for the sacrifice to Hercules. Those who carried the money, however, thought best not to use it for sacrifice, because that was inappropriate, but to expend it for another purpose. (2 Maccabees 4, 19)
