Fundar 13244 Resultados para: Úr
As for you, who have been scourged by Heaven, you must proclaim to everyone the grandeur of God's power.' So saying, they vanished. (2 Maccabees 3, 34)
Heliodorus offered sacrifice to the Lord and made most solemn vows to the preserver of his life, and then took courteous leave of Onias and marched his forces back to the king. (2 Maccabees 3, 35)
'If you have some enemy or anyone disloyal to the state, send him there, and you will get him back well flogged, if he survives at all, since some peculiarly divine power attaches to the holy place. (2 Maccabees 3, 38)
This was the outcome of the affair of Heliodorus and the preservation of the Treasury. (2 Maccabees 3, 40)
This hostility reached such proportions that murders were actually committed by some of Simon's agents, (2 Maccabees 4, 3)
and at this point Onias, recognising how mischievous this rivalry was, and aware that Apollonius son of Menestheus, the general commanding Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, was encouraging Simon in his malice, (2 Maccabees 4, 4)
When Seleucus had departed this life and Antiochus styled Epiphanes had succeeded to the kingdom, Jason, brother of Onias, usurped the high priesthood: (2 Maccabees 4, 7)
he approached the king with a promise of three hundred and sixty talents of silver, with eighty talents to come from some other source of revenue. (2 Maccabees 4, 8)
He further committed himself to paying another hundred and fifty, if the king would empower him to set up a gymnasium and youth centre, and to register the Antiochists of Jerusalem. (2 Maccabees 4, 9)
that the priests ceased to show any interest in serving the altar; but, scorning the Temple and neglecting the sacrifices, they would hurry, on the stroke of the gong, to take part in the distribution, forbidden by the Law, of the oil on the exercise ground; (2 Maccabees 4, 14)
setting no store by the honours of their fatherland, they esteemed hellenic glories best of all. (2 Maccabees 4, 15)
the vile Jason sent an embassy of Antiochists from Jerusalem, taking with them three hundred silver drachmas for the sacrifice to Hercules. But even those who brought the money did not think it would be right to spend it on the sacrifice and decided to reserve it for some other item of expenditure; (2 Maccabees 4, 19)
