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  • Judas' cohort came into sight first. The enemy, seized with fright and panic-stricken by the manifestation of the All-seeing, began to flee, one running this way, one running that, often wounding one another in consequence and running on the points of one another's swords. (2 Maccabees 12, 22)

  • and gave themselves to prayer, begging that the sin committed might be completely forgiven. Next, the valiant Judas urged the soldiers to keep themselves free from all sin, having seen with their own eyes the effects of the sin of those who had fallen; (2 Maccabees 12, 42)

  • If anyone is convicted of sacrilegious theft or of some other heinous crime, he is taken up to the top and pushed over to perish. (2 Maccabees 13, 6)

  • In such a manner was the renegade fated to die; Menelaus had not even the privilege of burial. (2 Maccabees 13, 7)

  • and not to allow the people, just when they were beginning to breathe again, to fall into the power of ill-famed foreigners. (2 Maccabees 13, 11)

  • He was then told that Philip, left in charge of affairs, had rebelled in Antioch. He was stunned by this, opened negotiations with the Jews, came to an agreement, and swore to abide by all reasonable conditions. Agreement reached, he offered a sacrifice, honoured the Temple, and made generous gifts to the holy place. (2 Maccabees 13, 23)

  • He received Maccabaeus kindly and, leaving Hegemonides to exercise command from Ptolemais to the territory of the Gerrenians, (2 Maccabees 13, 24)

  • first out of genuine concern for the king's interests, and secondly, out of a regard for our own fellow-citizens, because the irresponsible behaviour of those I have mentioned has brought no slight misery on our entire race. (2 Maccabees 14, 8)

  • Judas had posted armed men in strategic positions, in case of a sudden treacherous move by the enemy. The leaders held their conference and reached agreement. (2 Maccabees 14, 22)

  • Maccabaeus began to notice that Nicanor was treating him more sharply and that his manner of speaking to him was more abrupt than it had been, and he concluded that such sharpness could have no very good motive. He therefore collected a considerable number of his followers and got away form Nicanor. (2 Maccabees 14, 30)

  • Onias began to speak: 'This is a man', he said, 'who loves his brothers and prays much for the people and the holy city-Jeremiah, the prophet of God.' (2 Maccabees 15, 14)

  • Everyone now awaited the coming issue. The enemy had already concentrated their forces and stood formed up in order of battle, with the elephants drawn up in a strategic position and the cavalry disposed on the wings. (2 Maccabees 15, 20)


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