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where Jason and the whole city welcomed him in state, with carrying of torches and great huzza’ing. And so he led his army back to Phoenice. (2 Maccabees 4, 22)
Meanwhile, word had gone abroad at Jerusalem, how Lysimachus was ever robbing the temple, by Menelaus’ contrivance. Great store of gold was lost already; but now there was a rising of the common folk against Lysimachus, (2 Maccabees 4, 39)
Nor might all this content him; with Menelaus for his guide, that was traitor to faith and folk, what must he do but make his way into God’s temple, holier in all the world is none? (2 Maccabees 5, 15)
Not long after, the king despatched one of the senators at Antioch, with orders he should compel the Jewish people, custom of their fathers and law of their God to forsake. (2 Maccabees 6, 1)
What a storm of troubles broke then upon the commonwealth, most grievous to be borne! (2 Maccabees 6, 3)
So much, reader, for thy warning; and now go we back to our history. (2 Maccabees 6, 17)
He would rather die gloriously than live defiled; on he went, of his own accord, to the place of torture, (2 Maccabees 6, 19)
bequeathing to men younger than myself an example of courage; meeting, with ready resolve, an honourable death, for the sake of laws holy and august as ours are. And so without more ado he was led away to his torturing; (2 Maccabees 6, 28)
Seven brothers there were, that lay under arrest, and their mother with them; these too were tortured at the king’s command, to see if whip and thong would not make them eat swine’s flesh, for all their scruples. (2 Maccabees 7, 1)
and then he passed judgement upon this same spokesman. Tongue of him should be cut out, scalp torn off, hands and feet mutilated, while mother and brethren stood by to see it; (2 Maccabees 7, 4)
So died the first, and now the second must make sport for them. When the hair was torn from his head and the skin with it, they asked, Would he eat, or must his whole body pay for it, limb by limb? (2 Maccabees 7, 7)
Such was the manner of his passing; the fourth, too, when with like tortures they assailed him, (2 Maccabees 7, 13)
