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He also sent people to Gezer to murder John, and sent written orders to the military commanders to come to him so that he could give them silver, gold and presents; (1 Maccabees 16, 19)
He had already arrived with his bodyguard near the Treasury, when the Sovereign of spirits and of every power caused so great an apparition that all who had dared to accompany Heliodorus were dumbfounded at the power of God and reduced to abject terror. (2 Maccabees 3, 24)
this man who but a moment before had made his way into the Treasury, as we said above, with a great retinue and his whole bodyguard; and as they carried him away, powerless to help himself, they openly acknowledged the sovereign power of God. (2 Maccabees 3, 28)
As for you, who have been scourged by Heaven, you must proclaim to everyone the grandeur of God's power.' So saying, they vanished. (2 Maccabees 3, 34)
'If you have some enemy or anyone disloyal to the state, send him there, and you will get him back well flogged, if he survives at all, since some peculiarly divine power attaches to the holy place. (2 Maccabees 3, 38)
When the king gave his assent, Jason, as soon as he had seized power, imposed the Greek way of life on his fellow-countrymen. (2 Maccabees 4, 10)
while, as a result of the greed of the powerful, Menelaus remained in power, growing more wicked than ever and establishing himself as the chief enemy of his fellow-citizens. (2 Maccabees 4, 50)
Even so, he did not manage to seize power; and, in the end, his machinations brought him nothing but shame, and he took refuge once more in Ammanitis. (2 Maccabees 5, 7)
But he looked at the king and said, 'You have power over human beings, mortal as you are, and can act as you please. But do not think that our race has been deserted by God. (2 Maccabees 7, 16)
Only wait, and you will see in your turn how his mighty power will torment you and your descendants.' (2 Maccabees 7, 17)
He who only a little while before had thought in his superhuman boastfulness he could command the waves of the sea, he who had imagined he could weigh mountain peaks in a balance, found himself flat on the ground and then being carried in a litter, a visible demonstration to all of the power of God, (2 Maccabees 9, 8)
and, to crown all, he would himself turn Jew and visit every inhabited place, proclaiming the power of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 17)
