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Thereupon, a flame broke out from them, but died away when the altar fires blazed up again over yonder.✻ (2 Maccabees 1, 32)
Largesse the priests had, and many were the gifts passed from hand to hand, when the truth of the matter was proved.✻ (2 Maccabees 1, 35)
Prayed Moses, prayed Solomon, and fire came down from heaven to consume the burnt-sacrifice. … (2 Maccabees 2, 10)
Think you not he will fulfil, ere long, the promise made in his law; take pity on us, that are scattered wide as heaven, and on this hallowed soil reunite us? (2 Maccabees 2, 18)
And when he reached Jerusalem, and there received a gracious welcome from the high priest, he made no secret of the information he possessed, or of his errand, and he would know the truth about these moneys. (2 Maccabees 3, 9)
It was not long before friends of Heliodorus were entreating Onias to call down mercy from the most High, on one that was now at death’s door. (2 Maccabees 3, 31)
This Jason went to the new king, and made him an offer of three hundred and sixty talents of silver out of its revenue, besides eighty from other incomings. (2 Maccabees 4, 8)
Till now, the Jews had followed their own customs, by grace of a royal privilege; it was John that won it for them, father of that Eupolemus, who afterwards went in embassage to Rome, to make a treaty of alliance. But Jason would abrogate these customs; common right should be none, and great wrong should find acceptance instead. (2 Maccabees 4, 11)
as for Menelaus, he got the office he coveted, but never a penny paid the king of all he had promised, however urgent Sostratus might be, that was in command of the citadel. (2 Maccabees 4, 27)
No sooner was the king back from Cilicia than the citizens of Antioch, Jew and Gentile both, assailed him with complaints about the murder of an innocent man; (2 Maccabees 4, 36)
Three envoys from the council of elders brought the whole matter before the king, when he visited Tyre, (2 Maccabees 4, 44)
and Menelaus was as good as lost. What did he? With the promise of a great bribe he secured the good word of Ptolemy, son of Dorymenes;✻ (2 Maccabees 4, 45)
