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  • Next they brought forward the fifth and began torturing him. (2 Maccabees 7, 15)

  • Only wait, and you will see in your turn how his mighty power will torment you and your descendants.' (2 Maccabees 7, 17)

  • But let this be sufficient account of the ritual meals and monstrous tortures. (2 Maccabees 7, 42)

  • 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)

  • Making surprise attacks on towns and villages, he fired them; he captured favourable positions and inflicted very heavy losses on the enemy, (2 Maccabees 8, 6)

  • The money of their prospective purchasers fell into their hands. After pursuing them for a good while, they turned back, since time was pressing: (2 Maccabees 8, 25)

  • Flying into a passion, he resolved to make the Jews pay for the disgrace inflicted by those who had routed him, and with this in mind he ordered his charioteer to drive without stopping and get the journey over. But the sentence of Heaven was already hanging over him. In his pride, he had said, 'When I reach Jerusalem, I shall turn it into a mass grave for the Jews.' (2 Maccabees 9, 4)

  • But the all-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him with an incurable and unseen complaint. The words were hardly out of his mouth when he was seized with an incurable pain in his bowels and with excruciating internal torture; (2 Maccabees 9, 5)

  • and this was only right, since he had inflicted many barbaric tortures on the bowels of others. (2 Maccabees 9, 6)

  • that the holy city, towards which he had been speeding to rase it to the ground and turn it into a mass grave, should be declared free; (2 Maccabees 9, 14)

  • and, to crown all, he would himself turn Jew and visit every inhabited place, proclaiming the power of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 17)

  • For my part, I cherish affectionate memories of you. 'On my return from the country of Persia I fell seriously ill, and thought it necessary to make provision for the common security of all. (2 Maccabees 9, 21)


"Enquanto estivermos vivos sempre seremos tentados. A vida é uma contínua luta." São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina