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But when Menelaus was overcome, he promised to give much money to Ptolemy to persuade the king. (2 Maccabees 4, 45)
And so, Ptolemy went to the king in a certain court where he was, as if merely to refresh himself, and he influenced him away from the sentence. (2 Maccabees 4, 46)
And so, when these things were done, the king suspected that the Jews would desert the alliance. And because of this, departing from Egypt with a raging soul, he indeed took the city by force. (2 Maccabees 5, 11)
Otherwise, if it had not happened that they were involved in so many sins, as with Heliodorus, who was sent by king Seleucus to plunder the treasury, so also this one, as soon as he had arrived, certainly would have been scourged and driven away from his audacity. (2 Maccabees 5, 18)
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, 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)
