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Look to it, then, you make bowers and keep holiday in this month of Casleu.✻ (2 Maccabees 1, 9)
none else so kindly, none else so just, as thou, the almighty, the eternal! Israel from all peril thou deliverest, thou didst make choice of our fathers, and set them apart for thyself. (2 Maccabees 1, 25)
Folk streamed out of their houses in droves, to make public intercession over the affront that should be put on the holy place; (2 Maccabees 3, 18)
Till now, the Jews had followed their own customs, by grace of a royal privilege; it was John that won it for them, father of that Eupolemus, who afterwards went in embassage to Rome, to make a treaty of alliance. But Jason would abrogate these customs; common right should be none, and great wrong should find acceptance instead. (2 Maccabees 4, 11)
Here was news to make the king doubt whether the Jews were loyal to him, and back he came from Egypt in a great taking of rage. He occupied the city, and that by force of arms; (2 Maccabees 5, 11)
Nor might all this content him; with Menelaus for his guide, that was traitor to faith and folk, what must he do but make his way into God’s temple, holier in all the world is none? (2 Maccabees 5, 15)
Instead, they went to sacrifice on the king’s birthday, though it were ruefully and under duress; and when the feast of Liber came round, make procession they must in Liber’s honour, garlanded with ivy each one. (2 Maccabees 6, 7)
Seven brothers there were, that lay under arrest, and their mother with them; these too were tortured at the king’s command, to see if whip and thong would not make them eat swine’s flesh, for all their scruples. (2 Maccabees 7, 1)
So died the first, and now the second must make sport for them. When the hair was torn from his head and the skin with it, they asked, Would he eat, or must his whole body pay for it, limb by limb? (2 Maccabees 7, 7)
Heaven’s gift these be, he said, and for God’s law I make light account of them, well assured he will give them back to me. (2 Maccabees 7, 11)
As for Machabaeus, he called together the seven thousand✻ that followed him, and warned them they should make no terms with the enemy, nor be affrighted by a great rabble of men coming against them in so ill a cause. Courage! he said; (2 Maccabees 8, 16)
And now, in a great taking of rage, he would make the Jews suffer for the ignominy of his own defeat; on, on his chariot must be driven, and never a halt in the journey, with the divine vengeance ever at his heels. Had he not boasted, Jerusalem was his goal, and he would bury the Jewish race under the ruins of it? (2 Maccabees 9, 4)
