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And now a false rumour went abroad, Antiochus had come by his death. Jason’s ears it reached, and all at once, with full a thousand men at his back, he delivered an assault upon the city. Let the townsfolk man the walls as they would, at last it fell, and Menelaus must take refuge within the citadel. (2 Maccabees 5, 5)
and there, marked down for death by king Aretas of the Arabians, fled from city to city. An outlaw, hated and shunned by his kind, of a whole land, of a whole race, the common foe, he was driven out into Egypt; (2 Maccabees 5, 8)
Here was news to make the king doubt whether the Jews were loyal to him, and back he came from Egypt in a great taking of rage. He occupied the city, and that by force of arms; (2 Maccabees 5, 11)
But what would you? People it was God chose, and city for people’s sake; (2 Maccabees 5, 19)
chastisement that fell on the people, city must rue, and anon share its good fortune. He, the omnipotent, the ruler of all, would leave Jerusalem forlorn in his anger, would raise her to heights of glory, his anger once appeased. (2 Maccabees 5, 20)
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)
bequeathing to men younger than myself an example of courage; meeting, with ready resolve, an honourable death, for the sake of laws holy and august as ours are. And so without more ado he was led away to his torturing; (2 Maccabees 6, 28)
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)
Their city was like to be razed to the ground; would he watch the ruin of it unmoved? Would he be deaf, while bloodshed cried out for vengeance? (2 Maccabees 8, 3)
Themselves if he nothing regarded, let him remember at least the covenant made with their fathers; the renown, too, of that holy name they bore! (2 Maccabees 8, 15)
bethink you of the sanctuary their insults have outraged, of a city wronged and mocked, of immemorial traditions overthrown! (2 Maccabees 8, 17)
He had made his way into the city they call Persepolis, thinking to plunder its temple and of itself have the mastery; but the common folk ran to arms and routed him. So he was a man defeated and disgraced (2 Maccabees 9, 2)
