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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)
Here was great matter of indignation, and not among the Jews only; the very heathen took it amiss, so great a man should meet so unworthy an end. (2 Maccabees 4, 35)
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 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)
This Apollonius, when he reached Jerusalem, was all professions of friendship, and nothing did until the sabbath came round, when the Jews kept holiday. Then he put his men under arms, (2 Maccabees 5, 25)
And now, among all the neighbouring cities, a decree went out, wherein the Ptolemies✻ were the prime movers; all alike should constrain the Jews to do sacrifice, (2 Maccabees 6, 8)
At another time, Philip had information that certain Jews were meeting in caves near at hand, to keep the sabbath there without remark. Not one of these would lift a hand to help himself, so great care they had of the day’s observance, and all were burned to death. (2 Maccabees 6, 11)
No sooner did Judas hear of Nicanor’s coming, than he gave warning of it to the Jews who bore him company. (2 Maccabees 8, 12)
how they fought the Galatians at Babylon, with Macedonian allies whose heart failed them at the encounter, and six thousand Jews, alone but for heaven’s aid, made havoc of a hundred and twenty thousand men, much to the common advantage.✻ (2 Maccabees 8, 20)
As for Nicanor, that was the arch-villain of all, and would have sold the Jews to a thousand slave-dealers, (2 Maccabees 8, 34)
Where were the Jewish captives that should have paid off the tribute to Rome? He was fain to confess, now, that the Jews had God himself for their protector, and, would they but keep his laws, there was no conquering them! (2 Maccabees 8, 36)
And now, in a great taking of rage, he would make the Jews suffer for the ignominy of his own defeat; on, on his chariot must be driven, and never a halt in the journey, with the divine vengeance ever at his heels. Had he not boasted, Jerusalem was his goal, and he would bury the Jewish race under the ruins of it? (2 Maccabees 9, 4)
