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While he lay speechless and deprived of all hope of aid, due to an act of God's power, (2 Maccabees 3, 29)
Since you have been scourged by Heaven, proclaim to all men the majesty of God's power." When they had said this, they disappeared. (2 Maccabees 3, 34)
"If you have an enemy or a plotter against the government, send him there, and you will receive him back well-flogged, if indeed he survives at all; for there is certainly some special divine power about the Place. (2 Maccabees 3, 38)
But Menelaus, thanks to the covetousness of the men in power, remained in office, where he grew in wickedness and became the chief plotter against his fellow citizens. (2 Maccabees 4, 50)
he said: "Since you have power among men, mortal though you are, do what you please. But do not think that our nation is forsaken by God. (2 Maccabees 7, 16)
Only wait, and you will see how his great power will torment you and your descendants." (2 Maccabees 7, 17)
Ptolemy promptly selected Nicanor, son of Patroclus, one of the Chief Friends, and sent him at the head of at least twenty thousand armed men of various nations to wipe out the entire Jewish race. With him he associated Gorgias, a professional military commander, well-versed in the art of war. (2 Maccabees 8, 9)
Thus he who previously, in his superhuman presumption, thought he could command the waves of the sea, and imagined he could weigh the mountaintops in his scales, was now thrown to the ground and had to be carried on a litter, clearly manifesting to all the power of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 8)
Besides all this, he would become a Jew himself and visit every inhabited place to proclaim there the power of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 17)
He did not take God's power into account at all, but felt exultant confidence in his myriads of foot soldiers, his thousands of horsemen, and his eighty elephants. (2 Maccabees 11, 4)
Timothy himself fell into the hands of the men under Dositheus and Sosipater; but with great cunning, he asked them to spare his life and let him go, because he had in his power the parents and relatives of many of them, and could make these suffer. (2 Maccabees 12, 24)
A man called Dositheus, a powerful horseman and one of Bacenor's men, caught hold of Gorgias, grasped his military cloak and dragged him along by main strength, intending to capture the vile wretch alive, when a Thracian horseman attacked Dositheus and cut off his arm at the shoulder. Then Gorgias fled to Marisa. (2 Maccabees 12, 35)
