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With an iron sceptre you will break them, shatter them like so many pots.' (Psalms 2, 9)
Trembling seized them on the spot, pains like those of a woman in labour; (Psalms 48, 6)
How can a young man keep his way spotless? By keeping your words. (Psalms 119, 9)
They wrested the Law out of the control of the gentiles and the kings and reduced the sinners to impotence. (1 Maccabees 2, 48)
he darted in under the elephant, thrust at it from underneath, and killed it. The beast collapsed on top of him, and he died on the spot. (1 Maccabees 6, 46)
Burning with indignation, he immediately stripped Andronicus of the purple, tore his garments off him and, parading him through the length of the city, rid the world of the assassin on the very spot where he had laid impious hands on Onias, the Lord dealing out to him the punishment he deserved. (2 Maccabees 4, 38)
His career of wickedness was thus brought to a halt: imprisoned by Aretas, the Arab despot, escaping from his town, hunted by everyone, detested for having overthrown the laws, abhorred as the butcher of his country and his countrymen, he drifted to Egypt. (2 Maccabees 5, 8)
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)
at the sound of my name fearsome despots will be afraid; I shall show myself kind to the people and valiant in battle. (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 15)
she accompanied him down into the pit, nor did she abandon him in his chains until she had brought him the sceptre of a kingdom and authority over his despotic masters, thus exposing as liars those who had traduced him, and giving him honour everlasting. (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 14)
No more could any king or despot challenge you over those whom you have punished. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 14)
Take a potter, now, laboriously working the soft earth, shaping each object for us to use. Out of the self-same clay, he models vessels intended for a noble use and those for a contrary purpose, all alike: but which of these two uses each will have is for the potter himself to decide. (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 7)
