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at Garizim Andronicus and Menelaus, heaviest burden of all for the folk to bear. (2 Maccabees 5, 23)
But he would do worse by the Jews yet; or why did he send out Apollonius, the arch-enemy, and a force of twenty-two thousand, to cut off manhood in its flower, women and children to sell for slaves? (2 Maccabees 5, 24)
This Apollonius, when he reached Jerusalem, was all professions of friendship, and nothing did until the sabbath came round, when the Jews kept holiday. Then he put his men under arms, (2 Maccabees 5, 25)
Meanwhile Judas Machabaeus, and nine others with him, went out into the desert, where they lived like wild beasts on the mountain-side; better lodge there with herbs for food, than be party to the general defilement. (2 Maccabees 5, 27)
All riot and revelry the temple became, once the Gentiles had it; here was dallying with harlots, and women making their way into the sacred precincts, and bringing in of things abominable; (2 Maccabees 6, 4)
Two mothers there were, denounced for the circumcision of their own sons; what, think you, befell them? Both must be driven through the streets, with the children hung about their breasts, and cast headlong from the battlements! (2 Maccabees 6, 10)
Reader, by these tales of ill fortune be not too much dismayed; bethink thee, all this came about for the punishment of our race, not for its undoing. (2 Maccabees 6, 12)
See how he deals with other nations, waiting patiently to take full toll when the hour comes for judgement! (2 Maccabees 6, 14)
bequeathing to men younger than myself an example of courage; meeting, with ready resolve, an honourable death, for the sake of laws holy and august as ours are. And so without more ado he was led away to his torturing; (2 Maccabees 6, 28)
Thus he died, not only to those younger men he spoke of, but to our whole race, leaving the pattern of a brave and honourable death. (2 Maccabees 6, 31)
and then he passed judgement upon this same spokesman. Tongue of him should be cut out, scalp torn off, hands and feet mutilated, while mother and brethren stood by to see it; (2 Maccabees 7, 4)
Mortal, at thy own whim free to govern thy fellow men, think not God has abandoned this race of ours! (2 Maccabees 7, 16)
