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To gain a brief hour of this perishable life, shall I play a trick on them, shall I disgrace this hoary head of mine and bring down a curse on it? (2 Maccabees 6, 25)
So died the first, and now the second must make sport for them. When the hair was torn from his head and the skin with it, they asked, Would he eat, or must his whole body pay for it, limb by limb? (2 Maccabees 7, 7)
Esdras✻ was bidden read aloud from the sacred writings, and the watchword was given, God’s Aid. And with that, out went Judas at the head of his army, and engaged the enemy. (2 Maccabees 8, 23)
and he marched on Judaea at the head of eighty thousand men, with all the cavalry he could muster. Here was a city worth the capture, for Gentile folk to dwell in; (2 Maccabees 11, 2)
Next day, with Judas at their head, they went back to recover the bodies of the slain, for burial among their own folk in their fathers’ graves; (2 Maccabees 12, 39)
And this was his answer: It is the faction of the Assideans, with Judas Machabaeus at their head, that will ever be fanning the flames of war, and moving revolt, and destroying the peace of the realm. (2 Maccabees 14, 6)
And Judas? Not for nothing had he devoted body and soul, this long while, to the service of his fellow countrymen! Nicanor’s head, and one of his arms cut off from the shoulder downwards, he bade them carry to Jerusalem; (2 Maccabees 15, 30)
Head and hand he shewed them of the godless Nicanor, the hand that was stretched out so boastfully against the holy temple of the Almighty, (2 Maccabees 15, 32)
As for Nicanor’s head, Judas hung it at the top of the citadel, to be a clear and evident token, how God gives aid. (2 Maccabees 15, 35)
What, thou wouldst sleep a little longer, yawn a little longer; a little longer thou must pillow head on hand? (Proverbs 6, 10)
Shines the Lord’s favour on the just man’s head; the sinner’s lips are silenced by his own ill-doing. (Proverbs 10, 6)
Plan thou good, thou canst not be afoot too early; plan thou evil, on thy own head it shall recoil. (Proverbs 11, 27)
