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• See how the Holy Place, our beauty, our glory, is now laid waste, see how the gentiles have profaned it! (1 Maccabees 2, 12)

• What have we left to live for?' (1 Maccabees 2, 13)

• Mattathias and his sons tore their garments, put on sackcloth, and observed deep mourning. (1 Maccabees 2, 14)

• The king's commissioners who were enforcing the apostasy came to the town of Modein for the sacrifices. (1 Maccabees 2, 15)

• The king's commissioners then addressed Mattathias as follows, 'You are a respected leader, a great man in this town; you have sons and brothers to support you. (1 Maccabees 2, 17)

• Be the first to step forward and conform to the king's decree, as all the nations have done, and the leaders of Judah and the survivors in Jerusalem; you and your sons shall be reckoned among the Friends of the King, you and your sons will be honoured with gold and silver and many presents.' (1 Maccabees 2, 18)

• Raising his voice, Mattathias retorted, 'Even if every nation living in the king's dominions obeys him, each forsaking its ancestral religion to conform to his decrees, (1 Maccabees 2, 19)

• I, my sons and my brothers will still follow the covenant of our ancestors. (1 Maccabees 2, 20)

• May Heaven preserve us from forsaking the Law and its observances. (1 Maccabees 2, 21)

• As for the king's orders, we will not follow them: we shall not swerve from our own religion either to right or to left.' (1 Maccabees 2, 22)

• As he finished speaking, a Jew came forward in the sight of all to offer sacrifice on the altar in Modein as the royal edict required. (1 Maccabees 2, 23)

• At the same time he killed the king's commissioner who was there to enforce the sacrifice, and tore down the altar. (1 Maccabees 2, 25)