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Therefore when the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the laws as yet were very well kept, because of the godliness of Onias the high priest, and the hatred his soul had of evil, (2 Maccabees 3, 1)
For acting wickedly against the laws of God doth not pass unpunished: but this the time following will declare. (2 Maccabees 4, 17)
At the last having been shut up by Aretas the king of the Arabians, in order for his destruction, flying from city to city, hated by all men, as a forsaker of the laws, and execrable, as an enemy of his country and countrymen, he was thrust out into Egypt: (2 Maccabees 5, 8)
But this was not enough; he presumed also to enter into the temple, the most holy in all the world, Menelaus, that traitor to the laws, and to his country, being his guide. (2 Maccabees 5, 15)
But not long after the king sent a certain old man of Antioch, to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and of God: (2 Maccabees 6, 1)
The altar also was filled with unlawful things, which were forbidden by the laws. (2 Maccabees 6, 5)
And I shall leave an example of fortitude to young men, if with a ready mind and constancy I suffer an honourable death, for the most venerable and most holy laws. And having spoken thus, he was forthwith carried to execution. (2 Maccabees 6, 28)
have from heaven, but for the laws of God I now despise them: because I hope to receive them again from him. (2 Maccabees 7, 1)
But one of them, who was the eldest, said thus: What wouldst thou ask, or learn of us? we are ready to die rather than to transgress the laws of God, received from our fathers. (2 Maccabees 7, 2)
And when he was at the last gasp, he said thus: Thou indeed, O most wicked man, destroyest us out of this present life: but the King of the world will raise us up, who die for his laws, in the resurrection of eternal life. (2 Maccabees 7, 9)
But the Creator of the world, that formed the nativity of man, and that found out the origin of all, he will re- store to you again in his mercy, both breath and life, as now you despise your- selves for the sake of his laws. (2 Maccabees 7, 23)
Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised, and withal despising the voice of the upbraider, when the youngest was yet alive, did not only exhort him by words, but also assured him with an oath, that he would make him a rich and a happy man, and, if he would turn from the laws of his fathers, would take him for a friend, and furnish him with things necessary. (2 Maccabees 7, 24)
