Talált 1836 Eredmények: Age
bequeathing to men younger than myself an example of courage; meeting, with ready resolve, an honourable death, for the sake of laws holy and august as ours are. And so without more ado he was led away to his torturing; (2 Maccabees 6, 28)
his executioners were in a rage, that but now had been gentle with him; pride, they would have it, spoke here. (2 Maccabees 6, 29)
The king, in a rage, would have fire-pan heated, and caldron of bronze; heated they were, (2 Maccabees 7, 3)
And now they had their will with the third, who was no sooner bidden than he put forth tongue and hands very courageously; (2 Maccabees 7, 10)
What should Antiochus do? Here was defiance of his authority, here were tones of remonstrance that liked him little. The youngest son lived yet; for him, what encouragement, what royal assurances of wealth and happiness! Would he but leave the law of his fathers, he should be the king’s friend, and have weighty matters entrusted to him. (2 Maccabees 7, 24)
But thou, miserable wretch, viler on earth is none, wouldst thou vent thy rage on those worshippers of his, and flatter thyself with vain hopes none the less? (2 Maccabees 7, 34)
No wonder if this last, that so baffled the king’s rage, was more barbarously used than all the others; (2 Maccabees 7, 39)
Now turn we to Judas Machabaeus and his company. Secretly they made entry into the villages, whence they summoned both kinsman and friend of theirs; ay, and rallied many more, that were yet true to the Jewish faith, till they had mustered an army of six thousand men. (2 Maccabees 8, 1)
On village or town of theirs he would fall suddenly, and burn it to the ground; by seizing some point of vantage, once and again he put their forces to the rout; (2 Maccabees 8, 6)
As for Machabaeus, he called together the seven thousand✻ that followed him, and warned them they should make no terms with the enemy, nor be affrighted by a great rabble of men coming against them in so ill a cause. Courage! he said; (2 Maccabees 8, 16)
bethink you of the sanctuary their insults have outraged, of a city wronged and mocked, of immemorial traditions overthrown! (2 Maccabees 8, 17)
how they fought the Galatians at Babylon, with Macedonian allies whose heart failed them at the encounter, and six thousand Jews, alone but for heaven’s aid, made havoc of a hundred and twenty thousand men, much to the common advantage.✻ (2 Maccabees 8, 20)
