Fondare 3006 Risultati per: Old
For there appeared to them a magnificently caparisoned horse, with a rider of frightening mien, and it rushed furiously at Heliodorus and struck at him with its front hoofs. Its rider was seen to have armor and weapons of gold. (2 Maccabees 3, 25)
But Menelaus, thinking he had obtained a suitable opportunity, stole some of the gold vessels of the temple and gave them to Andronicus; other vessels, as it happened, he had sold to Tyre and the neighboring cities. (2 Maccabees 4, 32)
When many acts of sacrilege had been committed in the city by Lysimachus with the connivance of Menelaus, and when report of them had spread abroad, the populace gathered against Lysimachus, because many of the gold vessels had already been stolen. (2 Maccabees 4, 39)
And it happened that over all the city, for almost forty days, there appeared golden-clad horsemen charging through the air, in companies fully armed with lances and drawn swords -- (2 Maccabees 5, 2)
troops of horsemen drawn up, attacks and counterattacks made on this side and on that, brandishing of shields, massing of spears, hurling of missiles, the flash of golden trappings, and armor of all sorts. (2 Maccabees 5, 3)
And he commanded his soldiers to cut down relentlessly every one they met and to slay those who went into the houses. (2 Maccabees 5, 12)
Then there was killing of young and old, destruction of boys, women, and children, and slaughter of virgins and infants. (2 Maccabees 5, 13)
Within the total of three days eighty thousand were destroyed, forty thousand in hand-to-hand fighting; and as many were sold into slavery as were slain. (2 Maccabees 5, 14)
so that by doing this he might be saved from death, and be treated kindly on account of his old friendship with them. (2 Maccabees 6, 22)
But making a high resolve, worthy of his years and the dignity of his old age and the gray hairs which he had reached with distinction and his excellent life even from childhood, and moreover according to the holy God-given law, he declared himself quickly, telling them to send him to Hades. (2 Maccabees 6, 23)
and through my pretense, for the sake of living a brief moment longer, they should be led astray because of me, while I defile and disgrace my old age. (2 Maccabees 6, 25)
Therefore, by manfully giving up my life now, I will show myself worthy of my old age (2 Maccabees 6, 27)
