Trouvé 397 Résultats pour: Deceased Brother's Duty

• But Seleucus died, and when Antiochus surnamed Epiphanes succeeded him on the throne, Onias' brother Jason obtained the high priesthood by corrupt means: (2 Maccabees 4, 7)

• Three years later Jason sent Menelaus, brother of the aforementioned Simon, to deliver the money to the king, and to obtain decisions on some important matters. (2 Maccabees 4, 23)

• Then Jason, who had cheated his own brother and now saw himself cheated by another man, was driven out as a fugitive to the country of the Ammonites. (2 Maccabees 4, 26)

• in spite of the demand of Sostratus, the commandant of the citadel, whose duty it was to collect the taxes. For this reason, both were summoned before the king. (2 Maccabees 4, 28)

• Menelaus left his brother Lysimachus as his substitute in the high priesthood, while Sostratus left Crates, commander of the Cypriots, as his substitute. (2 Maccabees 4, 29)

• Antiochus was deeply grieved and full of pity; he wept as he recalled the prudence and noble conduct of the deceased. (2 Maccabees 4, 37)

• When the first brother had died in this manner, they brought the second to be made sport of. After tearing off the skin and hair of his head, they asked him, "Will you eat the pork rather than have your body tortured limb by limb?" (2 Maccabees 7, 7)

• After he had died, they tortured and maltreated the fourth brother in the same way. (2 Maccabees 7, 13)

• They next brought forward the fifth brother and maltreated him. Looking at the king, (2 Maccabees 7, 15)

• After him they brought the sixth brother. When he was about to die, he said: "Have no vain illusions. We suffer these things on our own account, because we have sinned against our God; that is why such astonishing things have happened to us. (2 Maccabees 7, 18)

• Antiochus, suspecting insult in her words, thought he was being ridiculed. As the youngest brother was still alive, the king appealed to him, not with mere words, but with promises on oath, to make him rich and happy if he would abandon his ancestral customs: he would make him his Friend and entrust him with high office. (2 Maccabees 7, 24)

• His foster brother Philip brought the body home; but fearing Antiochus' son, he later withdrew into Egypt, to Ptolemy Philometor. (2 Maccabees 9, 29)