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you may read in the annals of his time, that were kept faithfully since the day when he succeeded his father as high priest. (1 Maccabees 16, 24)
For the whole nation of Israel receive our sacrifice; all are thine; thy own domain keep inviolate. (2 Maccabees 1, 26)
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)
As my brethren, so I for our country’s laws both soul and body forfeit; my prayer is, God will early relent towards this nation, while thou dost learn, under the lash of his torments, that he alone is God. (2 Maccabees 7, 37)
But this thought weighs with me; when he went a-campaigning in the high countries, my father gave out who was to succeed him; (2 Maccabees 9, 23)
I doubt not he will shew himself his father’s true heir, ever courteous, and kindly, and easy of approach. (2 Maccabees 9, 27)
turn we to his son, Antiochus Eupator, that was born of a very ill father;✻ record we in brief the history of his reign, and the hazards of war that went with it. (2 Maccabees 10, 10)
Now that our father has found his place among the gods, it is for us to see that our subjects live at peace, and go quietly about their business. (2 Maccabees 11, 23)
But of one nation, the Jews, we hear that they resisted our father’s will, who would have had them conform to the Greek way of living; to their own tradition they hold fast, and their plea is, we should grant them the enjoyment of their rights in the matter. (2 Maccabees 11, 24)
And whereas we would have this nation live peaceably like the rest, we enact and decree that their temple should be restored to them, and that they should follow the custom of their forefathers. (2 Maccabees 11, 25)
Yet still the king pressed forward on his mad career, as if he would prove himself a worse enemy of Jewry than his father; (2 Maccabees 13, 9)
It was this Nicanor that received information against one of the elders at Jerusalem, named Razias, a true patriot and a man of good repute; for the love he bore it, men called him the father of the Jewish people. (2 Maccabees 14, 37)
