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But he would do worse by the Jews yet; or why did he send out Apollonius, the arch-enemy, and a force of twenty-two thousand, to cut off manhood in its flower, women and children to sell for slaves? (2 Maccabees 5, 24)
and butchered all that went out to keep festival; to and fro he went about the streets, with armed fellows at his heels, and made a great massacre. (2 Maccabees 5, 26)
Towards us, his mercy is inalienable; chastise us he will with adversity, but forsake us never. (2 Maccabees 6, 16)
Here was Eleazar, one of the chief scribes, a man of great age and of noble features, being required to eat swine’s flesh; but though they held his mouth open they could not force him to eat. (2 Maccabees 6, 18)
but he thought rather of the reverence that was due to his great age, of his venerable grey hairs, of a life blamelessly lived from childhood onwards. True to the precepts of God’s holy law, he answered that they would do better to send him to his grave and have done with it. (2 Maccabees 6, 23)
Man’s sentence here I may avoid if I will, but God’s almighty hand, living or dead, escape I may not. (2 Maccabees 6, 26)
his executioners were in a rage, that but now had been gentle with him; pride, they would have it, spoke here. (2 Maccabees 6, 29)
And this was the last sigh he uttered, as he lay there dying under the lash, Lord, in thy holy wisdom this thou well knowest; I might have had life if I would, yet never a cruel pang my body endures, but my soul suffers it gladly for thy reverence. (2 Maccabees 6, 30)
Thus he died, not only to those younger men he spoke of, but to our whole race, leaving the pattern of a brave and honourable death. (2 Maccabees 6, 31)
Ay, miscreant, he said with his last breath, of this present life it lies in thy power to rob us; but he, who is ruler of the whole world, he, for whose laws we perish, will raise us up again, and to life everlasting. (2 Maccabees 7, 9)
Wait but a little, and good proof thou shalt have of his sovereign power, such torment thee and thine awaits. (2 Maccabees 7, 17)
What should Antiochus do? Here was defiance of his authority, here were tones of remonstrance that liked him little. The youngest son lived yet; for him, what encouragement, what royal assurances of wealth and happiness! Would he but leave the law of his fathers, he should be the king’s friend, and have weighty matters entrusted to him. (2 Maccabees 7, 24)
