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Thus, in the hundred and seventieth year, Israel was free of the Gentile yoke at last; (1 Maccabees 13, 41)
and for the target of gold, our pleasure was to accept the gift of it. (1 Maccabees 15, 20)
Bring home the exiles; captives of the heathen conquer or set free; to the despised, the outcast grant redress; let the world know what a God is ours! (2 Maccabees 1, 27)
Speak we of that temple, the most famous in all the world, by their means recovered, of a city set free, of forgotten laws re-established, and how the Lord, in his great complaisance, shewed them mercy. (2 Maccabees 2, 23)
this vile Jason it was sent some of his wretches✻ with a gift of three hundred silver pieces to do honour to Hercules. True it is, the bearers of them asked they should not be spent on sacrifice, but on some other need that was more befitting; (2 Maccabees 4, 19)
It befell at this very time that the men of Tharsus and Mallus made an insurrection; so little it liked them that a gift should be made of their cities to Antiochis, the king’s paramour. (2 Maccabees 4, 30)
So now Menelaus, that was at the root of all the mischief, must go scot free, and his unhappy accusers, that might have cleared themselves easily enough before a court of bloodthirsty Scythians,✻ with their lives must pay for it. (2 Maccabees 4, 47)
Free had they been from the meshes of such guilt, Antiochus, too, should have been greeted with a drubbing, as Heliodorus was, the man king Seleucus sent to rob the treasury, and should have learned to leave his rash purpose. (2 Maccabees 5, 18)
Heaven’s gift these be, he said, and for God’s law I make light account of them, well assured he will give them back to me. (2 Maccabees 7, 11)
Mortal, at thy own whim free to govern thy fellow men, think not God has abandoned this race of ours! (2 Maccabees 7, 16)
Forgotten, his haste to lay Jerusalem in ruins, and make a cemetery of it; a free city it should be thenceforward. (2 Maccabees 9, 14)
Machabaeus no sooner heard of it, than he summoned the leaders of the people, and arraigned the guilty men in their presence; what, would they sell their brethren’s lives, by letting the enemies of their race go free? (2 Maccabees 10, 21)
