Talált 2650 Eredmények: Old
And all about the city of Jerusalem, by the space of forty days together, there were strange sights appearing. High up in air, horsemen were seen riding this way and that, in vesture of gold, and spears they carried as if they went to battle; (2 Maccabees 5, 2)
now riding in ordered ranks, now engaged in close combat. In long array they moved past, shields and helmeted heads and drawn swords; flew javelin and flashed golden harness, a whole armoury of shining mail. (2 Maccabees 5, 3)
Fell young and old alike; children with their mothers must die, nor maidenhood was spared, nor helpless infancy. (2 Maccabees 5, 13)
By the end of three days, eighty thousand had been massacred, forty thousand held as prisoners, and as many more sold into slavery. (2 Maccabees 5, 14)
Old friends among the bystanders, out of misplaced kindness, took him aside and urged him to let meat of some other kind be brought, which he could taste without scruple; he could pretend to have obeyed the king’s will by eating the sacrilegious food, (2 Maccabees 6, 21)
and his life should no longer be forfeit. Such kind offices old friendship claimed; (2 Maccabees 6, 22)
Into this womb you came, she told them, who knows how? Not I quickened, not I the breath of life gave you, nor fashioned the bodies of you one by one! (2 Maccabees 7, 22)
Man’s birth, and the origin of all things, he devised who is the whole world’s Maker; and shall he not mercifully give the breath of life back to you, that for his law’s sake hold your lives so cheap? (2 Maccabees 7, 23)
And he, without more ado, chose one of his best friends, Nicanor son of Patroclus, and sent him out to exterminate the Jewish race altogether. For which purpose, he armed full twenty thousand men, a rabble of all nations; and Gorgias should be at Nicanor’s side, a soldier that had much experience in the wars. (2 Maccabees 8, 9)
As for Nicanor, that was the arch-villain of all, and would have sold the Jews to a thousand slave-dealers, (2 Maccabees 8, 34)
Now the story is told, how Antiochus called the Illustrious came by his end, (2 Maccabees 10, 9)
and there were natives of the country besides,✻ well entrenched in their strongholds, that gave welcome to deserters from Jerusalem, and so fanned the flames of enmity. (2 Maccabees 10, 15)
