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While the high priest was offering the sacrifice of atonement, the same young men in the same clothing again appeared and stood before Heliodorus. "Be very grateful to the high priest Onias," they told him. "It is for his sake that the Lord has spared your life. (2 Maccabees 3, 33)
After Heliodorus had offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made most solemn vows to him who had spared his life, he bade Onias farewell, and returned with his soldiers to the king. (2 Maccabees 3, 35)
When Jason received the king's approval and came into office, he immediately initiated his countrymen into the Greek way of life. (2 Maccabees 4, 10)
Precisely because of this, they found themselves in serious trouble: the very people whose manner of life they emulated, and whom they desired to imitate in everything, became their enemies and oppressors. (2 Maccabees 4, 16)
Now I beg those who read this book not to be disheartened by these misfortunes, but to consider that these chastisements were meant not for the ruin but for the correction of our nation. (2 Maccabees 6, 12)
But preferring a glorious death to a life of defilement, he spat out the meat, and went forward of his own accord to the instrument of torture, (2 Maccabees 6, 19)
as men ought to do who have the courage to reject the food which it is unlawful to taste even for love of life. (2 Maccabees 6, 20)
But he made up his mind in a noble manner, worthy of his years, the dignity of his advanced age, the merited distinction of his gray hair, and of the admirable life he had lived from childhood; and so he declared that above all he would be loyal to the holy laws given by God. He told them to send him at once to the abode of the dead, explaining: (2 Maccabees 6, 23)
Should I thus dissimulate for the sake of a brief moment of life, they would be led astray by me, while I would bring shame and dishonor on my old age. (2 Maccabees 6, 25)
Therefore, by manfully giving up my life now, I will prove myself worthy of my old age, (2 Maccabees 6, 27)
At the point of death he said: "You accursed fiend, you are depriving us of this present life, but the King of the world will raise us up to live again forever. It is for his laws that we are dying." (2 Maccabees 7, 9)
When he was near death, he said, "It is my choice to die at the hands of men with the God-given hope of being restored to life by him; but for you, there will be no resurrection to life." (2 Maccabees 7, 14)
