Trouvé 224 Résultats pour: true friendship
we venture to send to renew our fraternal friendship with you, so that we may not become strangers to you, a long time having elapsed since you last wrote to us. (1 Maccabees 12, 10)
We have therefore chosen Numenius son of Antiochus, and Antipater son of Jason, and sent them to the Romans to renew our former treaty of friendship and alliance, (1 Maccabees 12, 16)
they wrote to him on bronze tablets to renew the treaty of friendship and alliance which they had made with his brothers, Judas and Jonathan, (1 Maccabees 14, 18)
We have recorded their declarations in the minutes of our public assemblies, as follows, "Numenius son of Antiochus, and Antipater son of Jason, ambassadors of the Jews, came to us to renew their friendship with us. (1 Maccabees 14, 22)
'The Jewish ambassadors have come to us as our friends and allies to renew our original friendship and alliance in the name of the high priest Simon and the Jewish people. (1 Maccabees 15, 17)
On his arrival in Jerusalem, and after a hospitable reception from the high priest and the city, he announced what had been disclosed, thus revealing the reason for his presence, and asked if this was indeed the true situation. (2 Maccabees 3, 9)
He suppressed the liberties which the kings had graciously granted to the Jews at the instance of John, father of that Eupolemus who was later to be sent on an embassy to negotiate a treaty of friendship and alliance with the Romans and, overthrowing the lawful institutions, introduced new usages contrary to the Law. (2 Maccabees 4, 11)
Godless wretch that he was and no true high priest, Jason set no bounds to his impiety; indeed the hellenising process reached such a pitch (2 Maccabees 4, 13)
this action would enable him to escape death, by availing himself of an act of kindness prompted by their long friendship. (2 Maccabees 6, 22)
'It will therefore be your concern to send them a mission of friendship, so that on learning our policy they may have confidence and happily go about their business.' (2 Maccabees 11, 26)
A fierce engagement followed, and with God's help Judas' men won the day; the defeated nomads begged Judas to offer them the right hand of friendship, and promised to surrender their herds and make themselves generally useful to him. (2 Maccabees 12, 11)
he and his men thanked them and urged them to extend the same friendship to his race in the future. They reached Jerusalem shortly before the feast of Weeks. (2 Maccabees 12, 31)
