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he stretched out his right hand towards the Temple and swore this oath, 'If you do not hand Judas over to me as prisoner, I shall rase this dwelling of God to the ground, I shall demolish the altar, and on this very spot I shall erect a splendid temple to Dionysus.' (2 Maccabees 14, 33)
With these words he left them. The priests stretched out their hands to heaven, calling on him who has at all times done battle for our nation; this was their prayer: (2 Maccabees 14, 34)
'O Lord in need of nothing, it has pleased you that the Temple where you dwell should be here with us. (2 Maccabees 14, 35)
Now, therefore, holy Lord of all holiness, preserve for ever from all profanation this House, so newly purified.' (2 Maccabees 14, 36)
Now, a man called Razis, one of the elders of Jerusalem, was denounced to Nicanor. He was a man who loved his countrymen and stood high in their esteem, and he was known as the father of the Jews because of his kindness. (2 Maccabees 14, 37)
In the earlier days of the insurrection he had been convicted of Judaism, and he had risked both life and limb for Judaism with the utmost zeal. (2 Maccabees 14, 38)
Nicanor, by way of demonstrating the enmity he had for the Jews, sent over five hundred soldiers to arrest him, (2 Maccabees 14, 39)
When the troops were on the point of capturing the tower and were forcing the outer door and calling for fire to set the doors alight, Razis, finding himself completely surrounded, fell on his own sword, (2 Maccabees 14, 41)
nobly resolving to die rather than fall into the clutches of these villains and suffer outrages unworthy of his noble birth. (2 Maccabees 14, 42)
But in the heat of conflict he missed his thrust, and while the troops swarmed in through the doorways, he ran nimbly upstairs to the parapet and manfully threw himself down among the troops. (2 Maccabees 14, 43)
although he had now lost every drop of blood, he tore out his entrails and taking them in both hands flung them down on the crowd, calling on the Master of his life and spirit to give them back to him one day. Thus he died. (2 Maccabees 14, 46)
Nicanor heard that Judas and his men were in the neighbourhood of Samaria, so he decided to attack them, at no risk to himself, on the day of rest. (2 Maccabees 15, 1)
