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The man who a moment before had entered that treasury with a great retinue and his whole bodyguard was carried away helpless, having clearly experienced the sovereign power of God. (2 Maccabees 3, 28)
While he lay speechless and deprived of all hope of aid, due to an act of God's power, (2 Maccabees 3, 29)
Since you have been scourged by Heaven, proclaim to all men the majesty of God's power." When they had said this, they disappeared. (2 Maccabees 3, 34)
"If you have an enemy or a plotter against the government, send him there, and you will receive him back well-flogged, if indeed he survives at all; for there is certainly some special divine power about the Place. (2 Maccabees 3, 38)
But Menelaus, thanks to the covetousness of the men in power, remained in office, where he grew in wickedness and became the chief plotter against his fellow citizens. (2 Maccabees 4, 50)
he said: "Since you have power among men, mortal though you are, do what you please. But do not think that our nation is forsaken by God. (2 Maccabees 7, 16)
Only wait, and you will see how his great power will torment you and your descendants." (2 Maccabees 7, 17)
So the all-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him down with an unseen but incurable blow; for scarcely had he uttered those words when he was seized with excruciating pains in his bowels and sharp internal torment, (2 Maccabees 9, 5)
Thus he who previously, in his superhuman presumption, thought he could command the waves of the sea, and imagined he could weigh the mountaintops in his scales, was now thrown to the ground and had to be carried on a litter, clearly manifesting to all the power of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 8)
Besides all this, he would become a Jew himself and visit every inhabited place to proclaim there the power of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 17)
On completing these exploits, they blessed, with hymns of grateful praise, the Lord who shows great kindness to Israel and grants them victory. (2 Maccabees 10, 38)
He did not take God's power into account at all, but felt exultant confidence in his myriads of foot soldiers, his thousands of horsemen, and his eighty elephants. (2 Maccabees 11, 4)
