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rather than have to punish us later, when our sins come to full measure. (2 Maccabees 6, 15)
But he, resolving to die with honour rather than to live disgraced, walked of his own accord to the torture of the wheel, (2 Maccabees 6, 19)
having spat the stuff out, as befits those with the courage to reject what is not lawful to taste, rather than live. (2 Maccabees 6, 20)
while those who were escorting him, recently so well disposed towards him, turned against him after this declaration, which they regarded as sheer madness. (2 Maccabees 6, 29)
One of them, acting as spokesman for the others, said, 'What are you trying to find out from us? We are prepared to die rather than break the laws of our ancestors.' (2 Maccabees 7, 2)
so that with my brothers and myself there may be an end to the wrath of the Almighty, rightly let loose on our whole nation.' (2 Maccabees 7, 38)
to remember too the criminal slaughter of innocent babies and to avenge the blasphemies perpetrated against his name. (2 Maccabees 8, 4)
if not for their own sakes, then at least out of consideration for the covenants made with their ancestors, and because they themselves bore his sacred and majestic name. (2 Maccabees 8, 15)
In the course of their victory celebrations in Jerusalem, they burned the men who had fired the Holy Gates; with Callisthenes they had taken refuge in one small house; so these received a fitting reward for their sacrilege. (2 Maccabees 8, 33)
Even so, he in no way diminished his arrogance; still bursting with pride, breathing fire in his wrath against the Jews, he was in the act of ordering an even keener pace when the chariot gave a sudden lurch and out he fell and, in this serious fall, was dragged along, every joint of his body wrenched out of place. (2 Maccabees 9, 7)
He who only a little while before had thought in his superhuman boastfulness he could command the waves of the sea, he who had imagined he could weigh mountain peaks in a balance, found himself flat on the ground and then being carried in a litter, a visible demonstration to all of the power of God, (2 Maccabees 9, 8)
When they had done this, prostrating themselves on the ground, they implored the Lord never again to let them fall into such adversity, but if they should ever sin, to correct them with moderation and not to deliver them over to blasphemous and barbarous nations. (2 Maccabees 10, 4)
