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  • the cowardly and those who lacked faith in God's justice deserted and got away. (2 Maccabees 8, 13)

  • While celebrating the victory in their ancestral city, they burned both those who had set fire to the sacred gates and Callisthenes, who had taken refuge in a little house; so he received the reward his wicked deeds deserved. (2 Maccabees 8, 33)

  • The body of this impious man swarmed with worms, and while he was still alive in hideous torments, his flesh rotted off, so that the entire army was sickened by the stench of his corruption. (2 Maccabees 9, 9)

  • that he would set free the holy city, toward which he had been hurrying with the intention of leveling it to the ground and making it a common graveyard; (2 Maccabees 9, 14)

  • Therefore I beg and entreat each of you to remember the general and individual benefits you have received, and to continue to show good will toward me and my son. (2 Maccabees 9, 26)

  • Now we shall relate what happened under Antiochus Eupator, the son of that godless man, and shall give a summary of the chief evils caused by the wars. (2 Maccabees 10, 10)

  • At the same time the Idumeans, who held some important strongholds, were harassing the Jews; they welcomed fugitives from Jerusalem and endeavored to continue the war. (2 Maccabees 10, 15)

  • Very soon afterward, Lysias, guardian and kinsman of the king and head of the government, being greatly displeased at what had happened, (2 Maccabees 11, 1)

  • Now that the Lord had shown his mercy toward them, they advanced in battle order with the aid of their heavenly ally. (2 Maccabees 11, 10)

  • Some people of Joppa also committed this outrage: they invited the Jews who lived among them, together with their wives and children, to embark on boats which they had provided. There was no hint of enmity toward them; (2 Maccabees 12, 3)

  • 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)

  • But if he did this with a view to the splendid reward that awaits those who had gone to rest in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. (2 Maccabees 12, 45)


"No tumulto das paixões terrenas, surge a grande esperança da misericórdia inexorável de Deus." São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina