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And here, in this same document, the story was told, how a divine oracle came to Jeremias, and he must needs go out, with tabernacle and ark to bear him company, to the very mountain Moses climbed long ago, when he had sight of God’s domain.✻ (2 Maccabees 2, 4)
With all this, dispositions Nehemias made, records Nehemias kept, are in full agreement. He it was founded a library, and there collected histories of king and prophet, and of David himself; dispatches, too, the kings had sent, and inventories of gifts made. (2 Maccabees 2, 13)
See what deliverance God has sent to his people, restoring to us our common domain, our sovereignty, our priesthood, our temple’s sanctity! (2 Maccabees 2, 17)
of the battles they fought against Antiochus, called the Illustrious, and Eupator, that was his son. (2 Maccabees 2, 21)
What would you? There be books a many, and they are hard put to it that would trace the course of history, for the abundance of the matter therein comprised. (2 Maccabees 2, 25)
to expatiate, to digress, to indulge curiosity on every point, is for the arch-historian; (2 Maccabees 2, 31)
And now, to our matter! Here is preface enough; it were ill done to draw out the preamble, and leave our story cramped for room. (2 Maccabees 2, 33)
No sooner did Apollonius find himself in the royal presence than he told the story of the rumoured treasure; and at that, the king sent for Heliodorus, that had charge of his affairs, and despatched him with orders to fetch the said money away. (2 Maccabees 3, 7)
And now, what must Simon do, the same that had drawn men’s eyes to his country with stories of treasure, but fall to slandering Onias? Onias it was, by his way of it, had egged Heliodorus on,✻ and been the author of the mischief. (2 Maccabees 4, 1)
So true a patriot, that well loved his race, well guarded the divine law, and he must be branded with the name of traitor! (2 Maccabees 4, 2)
Mischief in the bud, think you, when such alien Gentile ways came in? Nay, here was flower and fruit of it; and all through the unexampled villainy of one man, this Jason, that high priest was none, but rather an arch-traitor. (2 Maccabees 4, 13)
Afterwards, Apollonius the son of Menestheus was despatched to Egypt, for the enthroning of king Ptolemy Philometor. Well Antiochus knew that he was disaffected towards the royal policy, and there was his own safety to be considered … He passed on to Joppe, and so to Jerusalem,✻ (2 Maccabees 4, 21)
