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• Reaching Jerusalem with a large force, Nicanor sent a friendly, yet treacherous, message to Judas and his brothers, as follows: (1 Maccabees 7, 27)

• Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptolemy king of Egypt, with this message: (1 Maccabees 10, 51)

• Demetrius confirmed Apollonius as governor of Coele-Syria; the latter assembled a large force, encamped at Jamnia and sent the following message to Jonathan the high priest: (1 Maccabees 10, 69)

• Our own message to you is this: your flocks and your possessions are ours, and ours are yours, and we are instructing our envoys to give you a message to this effect.' (1 Maccabees 12, 23)

• When Trypho learned that Simon had taken the place of his brother Jonathan and that he intended to join battle with him, he sent envoys to him with this message, (1 Maccabees 13, 14)

• Although Simon was aware that the message was a ruse, he sent for the money and the boys for fear of incurring great hostility from the people, (1 Maccabees 13, 17)

• When the King's Friend, Athenobius, reached Jerusalem and saw Simon's magnificence, his cabinet of gold and silver plate and the state he kept, he was dumbfounded. He delivered the king's message, (1 Maccabees 15, 32)

• He suppressed the liberties which the kings had graciously granted to the Jews at the instance of John, father of that Eupolemus who was later to be sent on an embassy to negotiate a treaty of friendship and alliance with the Romans and, overthrowing the lawful institutions, introduced new usages contrary to the Law. (2 Maccabees 4, 11)

• for perceiving the meaning of proverbs and obscure sayings, the sayings of the sages and their riddles. (Proverbs 1, 6)

• she calls out at the street corners, she delivers her message at the city gates. (Proverbs 1, 21)

• The fruit of the upright is a tree of life: the sage captivates souls. (Proverbs 11, 30)

• The simpleton believes any message, a person of discretion treads a careful path. (Proverbs 14, 15)