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Now a certain one, running ahead, reported to John in Gazara, that his father and his brothers perished, and that “he sent to kill you also.” (1 Maccabees 16, 21)
behold, these have been written in the book of the days of his priesthood, from the time that he became high priest, after his father. (1 Maccabees 16, 24)
But the aforementioned Simon, who was a betrayer of the money and of his nation, spoke evil about Onias, as if he had instigated Heliodorus to do these things and as if he had been the inciter of evils. (2 Maccabees 4, 1)
And taking away those things that had been established by the kings, by reason of the humanitarianism of the Jews, through John, the father of Eupolemus, who formed a friendship and alliance with the Romans, he discharged the legitimate legislations, voiding the oaths of the citizens, and he sanctioned depraved customs. (2 Maccabees 4, 11)
In the end, to his ruin, he was enclosed by Aretas, the sovereign of the Arabs. And then, fleeing from city to city, hated by all as a detestable fugitive from the laws, and as an enemy of his own nation and citizens, he was expelled into Egypt. (2 Maccabees 5, 8)
But, as if this were not enough, he even presumed to enter into the most holy temple in the entire world, with Menelaus, that traitor to the law and to his own nation, as his guide. (2 Maccabees 5, 15)
said: “Having power among men, though you are corruptible, you do what you want, but do not think that our nation has been abandoned by God. (2 Maccabees 7, 16)
But I, like my brothers, deliver up my soul and my body for the sake of the laws of the fathers, calling upon God so as to bring forgiveness upon our nation sooner, and so that you, with torments and lashings, may confess that he alone is God. (2 Maccabees 7, 37)
By these words, they were brought to constancy and were prepared to die for the laws and their nation. (2 Maccabees 8, 21)
Moreover, considering that my father also, during the time that he led an army into the upper regions, revealed who would take up the leadership after him, (2 Maccabees 9, 23)
Since our father has been transferred among the gods, we are willing that those who are in our kingdom should act without tumult, and should attend diligently to their own concerns. (2 Maccabees 11, 23)
We have heard that the Jews would not consent to my father to convert to the rites of the Greeks, but that they chose to keep to their own institutions, and, because of this, that they ask of us to leave them to their own laws. (2 Maccabees 11, 24)
