Talált 389 Eredmények: Race
and, when the kingdom is ours, such honours we will bestow as shall make thee, and thy race, and its sanctuary, renowned all the world over. (1 Maccabees 15, 9)
Written in the hundred and eighty-eighth year.The common folk of Jerusalem and Judaea,✻ their council of elders, and I, Judas, to Aristobulus, of the anointed priestly race, that was master of king Ptolemy, and to the Jews of Egypt, greeting and health. (2 Maccabees 1, 10)
So true a patriot, that well loved his race, well guarded the divine law, and he must be branded with the name of traitor! (2 Maccabees 4, 2)
and there, marked down for death by king Aretas of the Arabians, fled from city to city. An outlaw, hated and shunned by his kind, of a whole land, of a whole race, the common foe, he was driven out into Egypt; (2 Maccabees 5, 8)
Reader, by these tales of ill fortune be not too much dismayed; bethink thee, all this came about for the punishment of our race, not for its undoing. (2 Maccabees 6, 12)
Thus he died, not only to those younger men he spoke of, but to our whole race, leaving the pattern of a brave and honourable death. (2 Maccabees 6, 31)
Mortal, at thy own whim free to govern thy fellow men, think not God has abandoned this race of ours! (2 Maccabees 7, 16)
Arch-enemy of the Jewish race, thinkest thou to escape from God’s hand? (2 Maccabees 7, 31)
And may the divine anger, that has justly fallen on our race, with me and these others be laid to rest! (2 Maccabees 7, 38)
And ever they besought the Lord, he would look with favour on a race down-trodden, have pity on a temple defiled by the heathen. (2 Maccabees 8, 2)
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)
And now, in a great taking of rage, he would make the Jews suffer for the ignominy of his own defeat; on, on his chariot must be driven, and never a halt in the journey, with the divine vengeance ever at his heels. Had he not boasted, Jerusalem was his goal, and he would bury the Jewish race under the ruins of it? (2 Maccabees 9, 4)
