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But too late; a messenger had reached John at Gazara, telling him his father and brothers were dead, and himself too marked down for slaughter; (1 Maccabees 16, 21)
you may read in the annals of his time, that were kept faithfully since the day when he succeeded his father as high priest. (1 Maccabees 16, 24)
Till now, the Jews had followed their own customs, by grace of a royal privilege; it was John that won it for them, father of that Eupolemus, who afterwards went in embassage to Rome, to make a treaty of alliance. But Jason would abrogate these customs; common right should be none, and great wrong should find acceptance instead. (2 Maccabees 4, 11)
Seven brothers there were, that lay under arrest, and their mother with them; these too were tortured at the king’s command, to see if whip and thong would not make them eat swine’s flesh, for all their scruples. (2 Maccabees 7, 1)
and then he passed judgement upon this same spokesman. Tongue of him should be cut out, scalp torn off, hands and feet mutilated, while mother and brethren stood by to see it; (2 Maccabees 7, 4)
then, so maimed, he was for the fire; they should roast him alive in a caldron. Long time he suffered, and there stood the rest with their mother, each heartening other to die bravely; (2 Maccabees 7, 5)
And here was the greatest marvel of all, by honest folk ever to be kept in mind, that the mother of seven children should be content to lose them all in one day, for the hope she had in God’s mercy. (2 Maccabees 7, 20)
But yield the boy would not; till at last the king beckoned the mother apart; mother of son should be the saviour yet. (2 Maccabees 7, 25)
And at length, when all her sons were gone, it was the mother’s turn to die. (2 Maccabees 7, 41)
But this thought weighs with me; when he went a-campaigning in the high countries, my father gave out who was to succeed him; (2 Maccabees 9, 23)
I doubt not he will shew himself his father’s true heir, ever courteous, and kindly, and easy of approach. (2 Maccabees 9, 27)
turn we to his son, Antiochus Eupator, that was born of a very ill father;✻ record we in brief the history of his reign, and the hazards of war that went with it. (2 Maccabees 10, 10)
