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they wrote to him on tablets made of bronze, to renew the treaty of friendship they had with his brethren, Judas and Jonathan, before him;✻ (1 Maccabees 14, 18)
And their errand stands recorded in our public annals; how Numenius son of Antiochus and Antipater son of Jason came on the Jews’ part to renew our old treaty of friendship with you; (1 Maccabees 14, 22)
Here were the Jews, priests and people both, agreed that he should rule them, granting him the high priesthood✻ by right inalienable, until true prophet they should have once more. (1 Maccabees 14, 41)
God speed you well, the covenant he made with his true worshippers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, never forgetting; (2 Maccabees 1, 2)
Long ago, when our fathers were being carried off into the Persian country, such priests of the true God as held office in those days took away the fire from the altar, and hid it down in the valley, in a pit both deep and dry, so well guarding their secret that none might know where it was to be found. (2 Maccabees 1, 19)
Full information would you have about this or that, I remit you to my author; for myself, I will be true to my own pattern of shortness. (2 Maccabees 2, 29)
So true a patriot, that well loved his race, well guarded the divine law, and he must be branded with the name of traitor! (2 Maccabees 4, 2)
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)
What did Menelaus? He gained the ear of Andronicus and demanded that Onias should pay for it with his life. So the viceroy himself paid Onias a visit, swore friendship and overcame his suspicions; then, when he had left sanctuary, without scruple of conscience put him to death. (2 Maccabees 4, 34)
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 his life should no longer be forfeit. Such kind offices old friendship claimed; (2 Maccabees 6, 22)
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)
