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• When Seleucus had departed this life and Antiochus styled Epiphanes had succeeded to the kingdom, Jason, brother of Onias, usurped the high priesthood: (2 Maccabees 4, 7)

• When three years had passed, Jason sent Menelaus, brother of the Simon mentioned above, to convey the money to the king and to complete negotiations on various essential matters. (2 Maccabees 4, 23)

• Thus Jason, who had supplanted his own brother, was in turn supplanted by a third, and obliged to take refuge in Ammanitis. (2 Maccabees 4, 26)

• Menelaus leaving his brother Lysimachus as deputy high priest, while Sostratus left Crates, the commander of the Cypriots, to act for him. (2 Maccabees 4, 29)

• And so the last brother met his end undefiled and with perfect trust in the Lord. (2 Maccabees 7, 40)

• Timotheus had hidden in a storage-well, but they killed him, with his brother Chaereas, and Apollophanes. (2 Maccabees 10, 37)

• The king's letter ran as follows: 'King Antiochus to his brother Lysias, greetings. (2 Maccabees 11, 22)

• Simon, brother of Judas, engaged Nicanor but, owing to the sudden arrival of the enemy, suffered a slight reverse. (2 Maccabees 14, 17)

• A friend is a friend at all times, it is for adversity that a brother is born. (Proverbs 17, 17)

• Whoever is idle at work is blood-brother to the destroyer. (Proverbs 18, 9)

• A brother offended is worse than a fortified city, and quarrels are like the locks of a keep. (Proverbs 18, 19)

• There are friends who point the way to ruin, others are closer than a brother. (Proverbs 18, 24)