Fondare 1326 Risultati per: Father Of The Nation
its contents were as follows: "King Antiochus to Simon the high priest and ethnarch and to the nation of the Jews, greeting. (1 Maccabees 15, 2)
When we gain control of our kingdom, we will bestow great honor upon you and your nation and the temple, so that your glory will become manifest in all the earth." (1 Maccabees 15, 9)
John went up from Gazara and reported to Simon his father what Cendebeus had done. (1 Maccabees 16, 1)
And Simon called in his two older sons Judas and John, and said to them: "I and my brothers and the house of my father have fought the wars of Israel from our youth until this day, and things have prospered in our hands so that we have delivered Israel many times. (1 Maccabees 16, 2)
But now I have grown old, and you by His mercy are mature in years. Take my place and my brother's, and go out and fight for our nation, and may the help which comes from Heaven be with you." (1 Maccabees 16, 3)
But some one ran ahead and reported to John at Gazara that his father and brothers had perished, and that "he has sent men to kill you also." (1 Maccabees 16, 21)
behold, they are written in the chronicles of his high priesthood, from the time that he became high priest after his father. (1 Maccabees 16, 24)
He set aside the existing royal concessions to the Jews, secured through John the father of Eupolemus, who went on the mission to establish friendship and alliance with the Romans; and he destroyed the lawful ways of living and introduced new customs contrary to the law. (2 Maccabees 4, 11)
But the Lord did not choose the nation for the sake of the holy place, but the place for the sake of the nation. (2 Maccabees 5, 19)
Therefore the place itself shared in the misfortunes that befell the nation and afterward participated in its benefits; and what was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty was restored again in all its glory when the great Lord became reconciled. (2 Maccabees 5, 20)
So in this way he died, leaving in his death an example of nobility and a memorial of courage, not only to the young but to the great body of his nation. (2 Maccabees 6, 31)
I, like my brothers, give up body and life for the laws of our fathers, appealing to God to show mercy soon to our nation and by afflictions and plagues to make you confess that he alone is God, (2 Maccabees 7, 37)
