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This was how he died, leaving his death as an example of nobility and a record of virtue not only for the young but for the greater part of the nation. (2 Maccabees 6, 31)
After him, they led out the sixth, and his dying words were these, 'Do not delude yourself: we are suffering like this through our own fault, having sinned against our own God; hence, appalling things have befallen us- (2 Maccabees 7, 18)
and if, to punish and discipline us, our living Lord is briefly angry with us, he will be reconciled with us in due course. (2 Maccabees 7, 33)
Our brothers, having endured brief pain, for the sake of ever-flowing life have died for the covenant of God, while you, by God's judgement, will have to pay the just penalty for your arrogance. (2 Maccabees 7, 36)
As soon as Maccabaeus had an organised force, he at once proved invincible to the foreigners, the Lord's anger having turned into compassion. (2 Maccabees 8, 5)
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)
Then and there, as a consequence, in his shattered state, he began to shed his excessive pride and come to his senses under the divine lash, spasms of pain overtaking him. (2 Maccabees 9, 11)
Finding no respite at all from his suffering, God's just sentence having overtaken him, he abandoned all hope for himself and wrote the Jews the letter transcribed below, which takes the form of an appeal in these terms: (2 Maccabees 9, 18)
so that, in case of any unforeseen event or disquieting rumour, the people of the provinces might know to whom he had left the conduct of affairs, and thus remain undisturbed; (2 Maccabees 9, 24)
And so this murderer and blasphemer, having endured sufferings as terrible as those which he had made others endure, met his pitiable fate, and ended his life in the mountains far from his home. (2 Maccabees 9, 28)
They kept eight festal days with rejoicing, in the manner of the feast of Shelters, remembering how, not long before at the time of the feast of Shelters, they had been living in the mountains and caverns like wild beasts. (2 Maccabees 10, 6)
Denounced, in consequence, to Eupator by the Friends of the King, he heard himself called traitor at every turn: for having abandoned Cyprus, which had been entrusted to him by Philometer, for having gone over to Antiochus Epiphanes, and for having shed no lustre on his illustrious office: he committed suicide by poisoning himself. (2 Maccabees 10, 13)
