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Therefore, when Antiochus had taken away from the temple one thousand eight hundred talents, he quickly returned to Antioch, thinking, in his arrogance, to navigate the earth, even by finding a passage leading across the open ocean: such was the elation of his mind. (2 Maccabees 5, 21)
But not much time later, the king sent a certain elder of Antioch, who compelled the Jews to transfer themselves from the laws of God and of their fathers, (2 Maccabees 6, 1)
And so, they were led by bitter necessity, on the birthday of the king, to the sacrifices. And, when the holy things of Liber were celebrated, they were forced to go around crowned with the ivy of Liber. (2 Maccabees 6, 7)
Yet those who stood near, being moved by an iniquitous pity because of long friendship with the man, taking him aside privately, asked that flesh be brought which was lawful for him to eat, so that he could pretend to have eaten, just as the king had commanded, from the flesh of the sacrifice. (2 Maccabees 6, 21)
And it happened also that seven brothers, united with their mother, were apprehended and compelled by the king to eat the flesh of swine against divine law, being tormented with scourges and whips. (2 Maccabees 7, 1)
And so the king, being angry, ordered frying pans and bronze caldrons to be heated. When these were presently heated, (2 Maccabees 7, 3)
And when he had reached his last breath, he spoke in this way: “You, indeed, O most wicked man, are destroying us in this present life. But the King of the world will raise us up, in eternal life at the resurrection, for we die on behalf of his laws.” (2 Maccabees 7, 9)
So then, the king and those who were with him, wondered at the soul of this youth, because he considered the torments as if they were nothing. (2 Maccabees 7, 12)
But Antiochus, thinking himself despised, and at the same time also despising the voice of the reproacher, when only the youngest was still left, not only exhorted him with words, but also assured him with an oath, that he would make him wealthy and happy, and, if he would convert from the laws of his fathers, he would have him as a friend, and he would provide him with necessary things. (2 Maccabees 7, 24)
But, when the youth was not swayed by these things, the king called the mother and persuaded her to act toward the youth to save him. (2 Maccabees 7, 25)
While she was still saying these things, the youth said: “What are you waiting for? I will not obey the precepts of the king, but the precepts of the law, which was given to us through Moses. (2 Maccabees 7, 30)
Then the king, burning with anger, raged against this one with cruelty beyond all the rest, bearing it indignantly that he himself was derided. (2 Maccabees 7, 39)
