Löydetty 2202 Tulokset: King Demetrius
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)
'To the excellent Jews, to the citizens, Antiochus, king and commander-in-chief, sends hearty greetings, wishing them all health and prosperity. (2 Maccabees 9, 19)
furthermore, being well aware that the sovereigns on our frontiers and the neighbours of our realm are watching for opportunities and waiting to see what will happen, I have designated as king my son Antiochus, whom I have more than once entrusted and commended to most of you when I was setting out for the upland satrapies; a transcript of my letter to him is appended hereto. (2 Maccabees 9, 25)
Denounced, in consequence, to Eupator by the Friends of the King, he heard himself called traitor at every turn: for having abandoned Cyprus, which had been entrusted to him by Philometer, for having gone over to Antiochus Epiphanes, and for having shed no lustre on his illustrious office: he committed suicide by poisoning himself. (2 Maccabees 10, 13)
Almost immediately afterwards, Lysias, the king's tutor and cousin, chief minister of the realm, much disturbed at the turn of events, (2 Maccabees 11, 1)
