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Then, till the sacrifice was consumed, the priests went on with their singing of hymns; (2 Maccabees 1, 30)
Meanwhile, we notify you by these presents of that cleansing ceremony we mean to perform; do us the courtesy to keep holiday on your part. (2 Maccabees 2, 16)
All this, the argument of five books Jason of Cyrene wrote, we have been at pains to abridge within the compass of a single volume. (2 Maccabees 2, 24)
But for me, that undertook the business of abridgement, think you it was light labour? Nay, here was a task all watching and sweat; (2 Maccabees 2, 27)
This Heliodorus set out on his journey without more ado, under colour of making a progress through the towns of Coelesyria and Phoenice, but with the king’s business still in mind. (2 Maccabees 3, 8)
and all around men were praising the Lord, for thus vindicating the honour of his sanctuary. In the temple, where all had been anxiety and turmoil until heaven showed its almighty power, all was rejoicing and contentment now. (2 Maccabees 3, 30)
Meanwhile, word had gone abroad at Jerusalem, how Lysimachus was ever robbing the temple, by Menelaus’ contrivance. Great store of gold was lost already; but now there was a rising of the common folk against Lysimachus, (2 Maccabees 4, 39)
whose numbers and their rage increasing, he was fain to put some three thousand men under arms, with one Tyrannus at their head, that was far gone in years, and no less in folly. Lysimachus it was that first resorted to violence; (2 Maccabees 4, 40)
Surely he had taken leave of his wits, this Antiochus; how should he know that this sanctuary, for once, would lack the divine protection? And only because, for a little, God’s anger was provoked by sins of the men that dwelt there! (2 Maccabees 5, 17)
A mark of signal favour it is, when the Lord is quick to chastise, nor lets the sinner sin on unreproved. (2 Maccabees 6, 13)
Such was the manner of his passing; the fourth, too, when with like tortures they assailed him, (2 Maccabees 7, 13)
So they came to the sixth, and this was his dying utterance: Never flatter thyself with vain hope; speed we amiss, it was our own doing, that sinned against our God. Strange be his dealings with us, (2 Maccabees 7, 18)
