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The high priest explained that part of the money was a care fund for widows and orphans, (2 Maccabees 3, 10)
and a part was the property of Hyrcanus, son of Tobias, a man who occupied a very high position. Contrary to the calumnies of the impious Simon, the total amounted to four hundred talents of silver and two hundred of gold. (2 Maccabees 3, 11)
that the priests no longer cared about the service of the altar. Disdaining the temple and neglecting the sacrifices, they hastened, at the signal for the discus-throwing, to take part in the unlawful exercises on the athletic field. (2 Maccabees 4, 14)
With the Almighty as their ally, they killed more than nine thousand of the enemy, wounded and disabled the greater part of Nicanor's army, and put all of them to flight. (2 Maccabees 8, 24)
Far from giving up his insolence, he was all the more filled with arrogance. Breathing fire in his rage against the Jews, he gave orders to drive even faster. As a result he hurtled from the dashing chariot, and every part of his body was racked by the violent fall. (2 Maccabees 9, 7)
Maccabeus, solicitous for the common good, agreed to all that Lysias proposed; and the king, on his part, granted in behalf of the Jews all the written requests of Maccabeus to Lysias. (2 Maccabees 11, 15)
he said, "I, on my part, am ruler on earth, and my orders are that you take up arms and carry out the king's business." Nevertheless he did not succeed in carrying out his cruel plan. (2 Maccabees 15, 5)
For them, love and hatred and rivalry have long since perished. They will never again have part in anything that is done under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 9, 6)
Dispute not about what is not your concern; in the strife of the arrogant take no part. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 9)
Those who go down to the sea tell part of its story, and when we hear them we are thunderstruck; (Ecclesiasticus 43, 25)
The abounding glory of the Most High's portion, his own part, since the days of old. Subduers of the land in kingly fashion, men of renown for their might, (Ecclesiasticus 44, 2)
If there be still a tenth part in it, then this in turn shall be laid waste; As with a terebinth or an oak whose trunk remains when its leaves have fallen. (Holy offspring is the trunk.) (Isaiah 6, 13)
