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• After him they brought the sixth brother. When he was about to die, he said: "Have no vain illusions. We suffer these things on our own account, because we have sinned against our God; that is why such astonishing things have happened to us. (2 Maccabees 7, 18)

• Antiochus, suspecting insult in her words, thought he was being ridiculed. As the youngest brother was still alive, the king appealed to him, not with mere words, but with promises on oath, to make him rich and happy if he would abandon his ancestral customs: he would make him his Friend and entrust him with high office. (2 Maccabees 7, 24)

• His foster brother Philip brought the body home; but fearing Antiochus' son, he later withdrew into Egypt, to Ptolemy Philometor. (2 Maccabees 9, 29)

• Timothy had hidden in a cistern, but they killed him, along with his brother Chaereas, and Apollophanes. (2 Maccabees 10, 37)

• The king's letter read thus: "King Antiochus sends greetings to his brother Lysias. (2 Maccabees 11, 22)

• Judas' brother Simon had engaged Nicanor, but because of the sudden appearance of the enemy suffered a slight repulse. (2 Maccabees 14, 17)

• He who is a friend is always a friend, and a brother is born for the time of stress. (Proverbs 17, 17)

• The man who is slack in his work is own brother to the man who is destructive. (Proverbs 18, 9)

• A brother is a better defense than a strong city, and a friend is like the bars of a castle. (Proverbs 18, 19)

• Some friends bring ruin on us, but a true friend is more loyal than a brother. (Proverbs 18, 24)

• Your own friend and your father's friend forsake not; but if ruin befalls you, enter not a kinsman's house. Better is a neighbor near at hand than a brother far away. (Proverbs 27, 10)

• a solitary man with no companion; with neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and riches do not satisfy his greed. "For whom do I toil and deprive myself of good things?" This also is vanity and a worthless task. (Ecclesiastes 4, 8)