Talált 2564 Eredmények: Ste
Fixing a day for the purpose, he went in to draw up an inventory of the funds. There was no little consternation throughout the city; (2 Maccabees 3, 14)
He further committed himself to paying another hundred and fifty, if the king would empower him to set up a gymnasium and youth centre, and to register the Antiochists of Jerusalem. (2 Maccabees 4, 9)
setting no store by the honours of their fatherland, they esteemed hellenic glories best of all. (2 Maccabees 4, 15)
Jason, however, made a pitiless slaughter of his fellow-citizens, oblivious of the fact that success against his own countrymen was the greatest of disasters, but rather picturing himself as winning trophies from some enemy, and not from his fellow- countrymen. (2 Maccabees 5, 6)
His career of wickedness was thus brought to a halt: imprisoned by Aretas, the Arab despot, escaping from his town, hunted by everyone, detested for having overthrown the laws, abhorred as the butcher of his country and his countrymen, he drifted to Egypt. (2 Maccabees 5, 8)
and so the holy place itself, having shared the disasters that befell the people, in due course also shared their good fortune; having been abandoned by the Almighty in his anger, once the great Sovereign was placated it was reinstated in all its glory. (2 Maccabees 5, 20)
Arriving in Jerusalem and posing as a man of peace, this man waited until the holy day of the Sabbath and then, taking advantage of the Jews as they rested from work, ordered his men to parade fully armed; (2 Maccabees 5, 25)
and to profane the Temple in Jerusalem and dedicate it to Olympian Zeus, and the one on Mount Gerizim to Zeus, Patron of Strangers, as the inhabitants of the latter place had requested. (2 Maccabees 6, 2)
and ordering the execution of those who would not voluntarily conform to Greek customs. So it became clear that disaster was imminent. (2 Maccabees 6, 9)
In the case of other nations, the Master waits patiently for them to attain the full measure of their sins before he punishes them, but with us he has decided to deal differently, (2 Maccabees 6, 14)
And so he never entirely withdraws his mercy from us; he may discipline us by some disaster, but he does not desert his own people. (2 Maccabees 6, 16)
having spat the stuff out, as befits those with the courage to reject what is not lawful to taste, rather than live. (2 Maccabees 6, 20)
