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So in this way he died, leaving in his death an example of nobility and a memorial of courage, not only to the young but to the great body of his nation. (2 Maccabees 6, 31)
The king fell into a rage, and gave orders that pans and caldrons be heated. (2 Maccabees 7, 3)
When he was utterly helpless, the king ordered them to take him to the fire, still breathing, and to fry him in a pan. The smoke from the pan spread widely, but the brothers and their mother encouraged one another to die nobly, saying, (2 Maccabees 7, 5)
He replied in the language of his fathers, and said to them, "No." Therefore he in turn underwent tortures as the first brother had done. (2 Maccabees 7, 8)
After him, the third was the victim of their sport. When it was demanded, he quickly put out his tongue and courageously stretched forth his hands, (2 Maccabees 7, 10)
The mother was especially admirable and worthy of honorable memory. Though she saw her seven sons perish within a single day, she bore it with good courage because of her hope in the Lord. (2 Maccabees 7, 20)
She encouraged each of them in the language of their fathers. Filled with a noble spirit, she fired her woman's reasoning with a man's courage, and said to them, (2 Maccabees 7, 21)
The king fell into a rage, and handled him worse than the others, being exasperated at his scorn. (2 Maccabees 7, 39)
But Judas, who was also called Maccabeus, and his companions secretly entered the villages and summoned their kinsmen and enlisted those who had continued in the Jewish faith, and so they gathered about six thousand men. (2 Maccabees 8, 1)
Coming without warning, he would set fire to towns and villages. He captured strategic positions and put to flight not a few of the enemy. (2 Maccabees 8, 6)
He found the nights most advantageous for such attacks. And talk of his valor spread everywhere. (2 Maccabees 8, 7)
keeping before their eyes the lawless outrage which the Gentiles had committed against the holy place, and the torture of the derided city, and besides, the overthrow of their ancestral way of life. (2 Maccabees 8, 17)
