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The people supervising the ritual meal, forbidden by the Law, because of the length of time for which they had known him, took him aside and privately urged him to have meat brought of a kind he could properly use, prepared by himself, and only pretend to eat the portions of sacrificial meat as prescribed by the king; (2 Maccabees 6, 21)
It also happened that seven brothers were arrested with their mother. The king tried to force them to taste some pork, which the Law forbids, by torturing them with whips and scourges. (2 Maccabees 7, 1)
The king, in a fury, ordered pans and cauldrons to be heated over a fire. (2 Maccabees 7, 3)
When he had been rendered completely helpless, the king gave orders for him to be brought, still breathing, to the fire and fried alive in a pan. As the smoke from the pan drifted about, his mother and the rest encouraged one another to die nobly, with such words as these, (2 Maccabees 7, 5)
With his last breath he exclaimed, 'Cruel brute, you may discharge us from this present life, but the King of the world will raise us up, since we die for his laws, to live again for ever.' (2 Maccabees 7, 9)
The king and his attendants were astounded at the young man's courage and his utter indifference to suffering. (2 Maccabees 7, 12)
But he looked at the king and said, 'You have power over human beings, mortal as you are, and can act as you please. But do not think that our race has been deserted by God. (2 Maccabees 7, 16)
The young man took no notice at all, and so the king then appealed to the mother, urging her to advise the youth to save his life. (2 Maccabees 7, 25)
She had hardly finished, when the young man said, 'What are you all waiting for? I will not comply with the king's ordinance; I obey the ordinance of the Law given to our ancestors through Moses. (2 Maccabees 7, 30)
The king fell into a rage and treated this one more cruelly than the others, for he was himself smarting from the young man's scorn. (2 Maccabees 7, 39)
Ptolemy chose Nicanor son of Patroclus, one of the king's First Friends, and sent him without delay at the head of an international force of at least twenty thousand men to exterminate the entire Jewish race. As his associate he appointed Gorgias, a professional experience. (2 Maccabees 8, 9)
Nicanor for his part proposed, by the sale of Jewish prisoners of war, to raise the two thousand talents of tribute money owed by the king to the Romans. (2 Maccabees 8, 10)
