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After the first brother had died in this way, they brought forward the second for their sport. They tore off the skin of his head with the hair, and asked him, "Will you eat rather than have your body punished limb by limb?" (2 Maccabees 7, 7)
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)
Antiochus felt that he was being treated with contempt, and he was suspicious of her reproachful tone. The youngest brother being still alive, Antiochus not only appealed to him in words, but promised with oaths that he would make him rich and enviable if he would turn from the ways of his fathers, and that he would take him for his friend and entrust him with public affairs. (2 Maccabees 7, 24)
They killed Timothy, who was hidden in a cistern, and his brother Chaereas, and Apollophanes. (2 Maccabees 10, 37)
The king's letter ran thus: "King Antiochus to his brother Lysias, greeting. (2 Maccabees 11, 22)
Simon, the brother of Judas, had encountered Nicanor, but had been temporarily checked because of the sudden consternation created by the enemy. (2 Maccabees 14, 17)
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. (Proverbs 17, 17)
He who is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys. (Proverbs 18, 9)
A brother helped is like a strong city, but quarreling is like the bars of a castle. (Proverbs 18, 19)
There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. (Proverbs 18, 24)
Your friend, and your father's friend, do not forsake; and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away. (Proverbs 27, 10)
a person who has no one, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity and an unhappy business. (Ecclesiastes 4, 8)
