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And that it should not be lawful for any of the people, or of the priests, to disannul any of these things, or to gainsay his words, or to call together an assembly in the country without him: or to be clothed with purple, or to wear a buckle of gold: (1 Maccabees 14, 44)
If therefore any pestilent men are fled out of their country to you, deliver them to Simon the high priest, that he may punish them according to their law. (1 Maccabees 15, 21)
For he was son in law of the high priest. (1 Maccabees 16, 12)
May he open your heart in his law, and in his commandments, and send you peace. (2 Maccabees 1, 4)
And how he gave them the law that they should not forget the commandments of the Lord, and that they should not err in their minds, seeing the idols of gold, and silver, and the ornaments of them. (2 Maccabees 2, 2)
And with other such like speeches, he exhorted them that they would not remove the law from their heart. (2 Maccabees 2, 3)
As he promised in the law, will shortly have mercy upon us, and will gather us together from every land under heaven into the holy place. (2 Maccabees 2, 18)
And recovered again the most renowned temple in all the world, and delivered the city, and restored the laws that were abolished, the Lord with all clemency shewing mercy to them. (2 Maccabees 2, 23)
Therefore when the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the laws as yet were very well kept, because of the godliness of Onias the high priest, and the hatred his soul had of evil, (2 Maccabees 3, 1)
And the priests prostrated them- selves before the altar in their priests' vestments, and called upon him from heaven, who made the law concerning things given to be kept, that he would preserve them safe, for them that had deposited them. (2 Maccabees 3, 15)
And he presumed to call him a traitor to the kingdom, who provided for the city, and defended his nation, and wed zealous for the law of God. (2 Maccabees 4, 2)
And abolishing those things, which had been decreed of special favour by the kings in behalf of the Jews, by the means of John the father of that Eupolemus, who went ambassador to Rome to make amity and alliance, he disannulled the lawful ordinances of the citizens, and brought in fashions that were perverse. (2 Maccabees 4, 11)
