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Making surprise attacks on towns and villages, he fired them; he captured favourable positions and inflicted very heavy losses on the enemy, (2 Maccabees 8, 6)
generally availing himself of the cover of night for such enterprises. The fame of his valour spread far and wide. (2 Maccabees 8, 7)
Maccabaeus marshalled his men, who numbered about six thousand, and exhorted them not to be dismayed at the enemy or discouraged at the vast horde of gentiles wickedly advancing against them, but to fight bravely, (2 Maccabees 8, 16)
'They may put their trust in their weapons and their exploits,' he said, 'but our confidence is in almighty God, who is able with a single nod to overthrow both those marching on us and the whole world with them.' (2 Maccabees 8, 18)
that time in Babylonia when in the battle with the Galatians the Jewish combatants numbered only eight thousand, with four thousand Macedonians, yet when the Macedonians were hard pressed, the eight thousand had destroyed a hundred and twenty thousand, thanks to the help they had received from Heaven, and had taken great booty as a result. (2 Maccabees 8, 20)
Having so roused their courage by these words that they were ready to die for the laws and their country, he then divided his army into four, (2 Maccabees 8, 21)
The money of their prospective purchasers fell into their hands. After pursuing them for a good while, they turned back, since time was pressing: (2 Maccabees 8, 25)
it was the eve of the Sabbath, and for that reason they did not prolong their pursuit. (2 Maccabees 8, 26)
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)
Flying into a passion, he resolved to make the Jews pay for the disgrace inflicted by those who had routed him, and with this in mind he ordered his charioteer to drive without stopping and get the journey over. But the sentence of Heaven was already hanging over him. In his pride, he had said, 'When I reach Jerusalem, I shall turn it into a mass grave for the Jews.' (2 Maccabees 9, 4)
But the all-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him with an incurable and unseen complaint. The words were hardly out of his mouth when he was seized with an incurable pain in his bowels and with excruciating internal torture; (2 Maccabees 9, 5)
and this was only right, since he had inflicted many barbaric tortures on the bowels of others. (2 Maccabees 9, 6)
