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Athenobius made no reply, but returned to the king in anger. When he told him of Simon's words, of his splendor, and of all he had seen, the king fell into a violent rage. (1 Maccabees 15, 36)
He quickly established a gymnasium at the very foot of the acropolis, where he induced the noblest young men to wear the Greek hat. (2 Maccabees 4, 12)
The king, therefore, went off in haste to settle the affair, leaving Andronicus, one of his nobles, as his deputy. (2 Maccabees 4, 31)
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)
Eleazar, one of the foremost scribes, a man of advanced age and noble appearance, was being forced to open his mouth to eat pork. (2 Maccabees 6, 18)
But he made up his mind in a noble manner, worthy of his years, the dignity of his advanced age, the merited distinction of his gray hair, and of the admirable life he had lived from childhood; and so he declared that above all he would be loyal to the holy laws given by God. He told them to send him at once to the abode of the dead, explaining: (2 Maccabees 6, 23)
and I will leave to the young a noble example of how to die willingly and generously for the revered and holy laws." He spoke thus, and went immediately to the instrument of torture. (2 Maccabees 6, 28)
as he spoke these noble words: "It was from Heaven that I received these; for the sake of his laws I disdain them; from him I hope to receive them again." (2 Maccabees 7, 11)
Filled with a noble spirit that stirred her womanly heart with manly courage, she exhorted each of them in the language of their forefathers with these words: (2 Maccabees 7, 21)
Turning to supplication, they prayed that the sinful deed might be fully blotted out. The noble Judas warned the soldiers to keep themselves free from sin, for they had seen with their own eyes what had happened because of the sin of those who had fallen. (2 Maccabees 12, 42)
He then took up a collection among all his soldiers, amounting to two thousand silver drachmas, which he sent to Jerusalem to provide for an expiatory sacrifice. In doing this he acted in a very excellent and noble way, inasmuch as he had the resurrection of the dead in view; (2 Maccabees 12, 43)
Leaving the outcome to the Creator of the world, and exhorting his followers to fight nobly to death for the laws, the temple, the city, the country, and the government, he pitched his camp near Modein. (2 Maccabees 13, 14)
