Trouvé 949 Résultats pour: Long Life
Quickly some of Heliodorus' friends asked Onias to call upon the Most High and to grant life to one who was lying quite at his last breath. (2 Maccabees 3, 31)
While the high priest was making the offering of atonement, the same young men appeared again to Heliodorus dressed in the same clothing, and they stood and said, "Be very grateful to Onias the high priest, since for his sake the Lord has granted you your life. (2 Maccabees 3, 33)
Then Heliodorus offered sacrifice to the Lord and made very great vows to the Savior of his life, and having bidden Onias farewell, he marched off with his forces to the king. (2 Maccabees 3, 35)
When the king assented and Jason came to office, he at once shifted his countrymen over to the Greek way of life. (2 Maccabees 4, 10)
Not long after this, the king sent an Athenian senator to compel the Jews to forsake the laws of their fathers and cease to live by the laws of God, (2 Maccabees 6, 1)
In fact, not to let the impious alone for long, but to punish them immediately, is a sign of great kindness. (2 Maccabees 6, 13)
But he, welcoming death with honor rather than life with pollution, went up to the the rack of his own accord, spitting out the flesh, (2 Maccabees 6, 19)
as men ought to go who have the courage to refuse things that it is not right to taste, even for the natural love of life. (2 Maccabees 6, 20)
Those who were in charge of that unlawful sacrifice took the man aside, because of their long acquaintance with him, and privately urged him to bring meat of his own providing, proper for him to use, and pretend that he was eating the flesh of the sacrificial meal which had been commanded by the king, (2 Maccabees 6, 21)
But making a high resolve, worthy of his years and the dignity of his old age and the gray hairs which he had reached with distinction and his excellent life even from childhood, and moreover according to the holy God-given law, he declared himself quickly, telling them to send him to Hades. (2 Maccabees 6, 23)
"Such pretense is not worthy of our time of life," he said, "lest many of the young should suppose that Eleazar in his ninetieth year has gone over to an alien religion, (2 Maccabees 6, 24)
Therefore, by manfully giving up my life now, I will show myself worthy of my old age (2 Maccabees 6, 27)
