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• Their possessions were seized and the sword of Apollonius was taken by Judas, who fought with it the rest of his life. (1 Maccabees 3, 12)

• So he gave up his life to save his people and win an everlasting name for himself. (1 Maccabees 6, 44)

• He agreed to do as Jonathan had asked. He swore an oath to him that he would never try to injure him for the rest of his life; (1 Maccabees 9, 71)

• They therefore decided in favor of Alexander, for he had been the first to address them peaceably, and they remained his allies for the rest of his life. (1 Maccabees 10, 47)

• which, at the same time, they set on fire and plundered on a large scale. Thus they saved the king's life. (1 Maccabees 11, 48)

• Far be it from me, then, to save my own life in any time of distress, for I am not better than my brothers. (1 Maccabees 13, 5)

• Soon some of the companions of Heliodorus begged Onias to invoke the Most High, praying that the life of the man who was about to expire might be spared. (2 Maccabees 3, 31)

• While the high priest was offering the sacrifice of atonement, the same young men in the same clothing again appeared and stood before Heliodorus. "Be very grateful to the high priest Onias," they told him. "It is for his sake that the Lord has spared your life. (2 Maccabees 3, 33)

• After Heliodorus had offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made most solemn vows to him who had spared his life, he bade Onias farewell, and returned with his soldiers to the king. (2 Maccabees 3, 35)

• When Jason received the king's approval and came into office, he immediately initiated his countrymen into the Greek way of life. (2 Maccabees 4, 10)

• Precisely because of this, they found themselves in serious trouble: the very people whose manner of life they emulated, and whom they desired to imitate in everything, became their enemies and oppressors. (2 Maccabees 4, 16)

• But preferring a glorious death to a life of defilement, he spat out the meat, and went forward of his own accord to the instrument of torture, (2 Maccabees 6, 19)