to See 1 Macc. 11. 14. 15. 18 & 2 Kin. 16. 8. y ver. 18. 3. 37. 6. ver. 18. See 1 Macc. 12. 6. him; 42 by reason of which they wounded & 10. 12. things, it came to pass that they of took handfuls of the ashes that lay near, "Acts 9. 11. "Tarsus and Mallus made insurrection, and they flung them all pell-mell upon because they were to be given as aLysimachus and them that were with present to Antiochis, the king's concubine. 31 The king therefore came to w Cilicia in all haste to settle matters, leaving for his deputy Andronicus, a man of high rank. 32 And Menelaus, supposing that he had gotten a favourCp. 1 Kin. able opportunity, presented to Andronicus certain vessels of gold belonging to the temple, which he had stolen: other vessels also he had already sold into Tyre and the cities round about. 33 And when Onias had sure knowledge of this, he sharply reproved him, having withdrawn himself into a sanctuary at See 1 Macc. Daphne, that lieth by "Antioch. 34 Wherefore Menelaus, taking Andronicus apart, prayed him to kill Önias. And coming to Onias, and being persuaded to use treachery, and being received as a friend, Andronicus gave him his right hand with oaths of fidelity, and, though he was suspected by him, so persuaded him to comek Scythians, would have been discharged Cp. Col. 8. forth of the sanctuary; and forthwith uncondemned, them he sentenced to he despatched him without regard of death. 48 Soon then did they that were justice. 35 For the which cause not only spokesmen for the city and the families Cp. ch. 7.2. Jews, but many also of the other nations, of Israel and the holy vessels suffer had indignation and displeasure at the that unrighteous penalty. 49 For which unjust murder of the man. 36 And when cause even certain Tyrians, moved with the king was come back again a from the hatred of the wickedness, provided magplaces in Cilicia, the Jews that were nificently for their burial. 50 But m Mein the city pleaded before him against nelaus through the covetous dealings of Andronicus (the Greeks also joining with them that were in power mremained them in hatred of the wickedness), still in his office, cleaving to wickedurging that Onias had been wrongfully ness, as a great conspirator against slain. 37 Antiochus therefore was heartily his fellow-citizens. sorry, and was moved to pity, and wept, because of the sober and well ordered life of him that was dead; 38 and being inflamed with passion, forthwith he See 1 Macc. stripped off Andronicus's purple robe, and rent off his under garments, and when he had led him round through the whole city unto that very place where he had committed impiety against Onias, there he put the murderer out of the way, the Lord rendering to him the punishment he had deserved. Cp. ver. 30. * Cp. ch. 3. 1, 2. 10. 20. d See Judg. 9. 56. * ver. 29. 39 Now when many sacrileges had been committed in the city by eLysimachus with the consent of Menelaus, and when the bruit thereof was spread abroad outside, the people gathered themselves Cp. ver. 32. together against Lysimachus, after many vessels of gold had been already dispersed. 40 And when the multitudes were rising against him, and were filled with anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and with unrighteous violence began the conflict, one Hauran, a man far gone in years and no less also in madness, leading the attack. 41 But when they perceived the assault of Lysimachus, some caught up stones, others logs of wood, and some 1 Gr. successor. corrupt. I Now about this time Antiochus 11. ver. 23. Cp. ch. 11. 29. * Cp. ch. B. 15, 23. 5 made his second inroad into Egypt. Cp.1 Mace. 1. 17. 21. 11. 2 And it so befell that throughout all the city, for the space of almost forty days, there appeared pin the midst of " Cp. Luke the sky horsemen in swift motion, wearing robes inwrought with gold and carrying spears, equipped in troops for battle; 3 and drawing of swords; and on the other side squadrons of horse in array; and encounters and pursuits of both armies; and shaking of shields, and multitudes of lances, and casting of darts, and flashing of golden trappings, Cp. ch. 3. and girding on of all sorts of armour. 4 Wherefore all men besought that the 10 vision might have been given for good. 4 Or, imprisoned him Gr. shut him off. 7 Or, growing in 3 The Greek text of this sentence is probably 23. "See ch. 4. 12. 25 11. 32. * ch. 12. 10. 1 Масс. 5. 39. J Cp. ch. 4. 11. Cp. 1 Mace. 12220, 21 1 Macc. 12. & 14. 16. 7. Cp. Jer. 22. 18, 19. II. MACCABEES. [CHAP. 6, v. 5. Cp. Isai. nation's sake. 60. 15. & 7.33 & 8.29. Cp. 1 Mace. Cp ch & K 1. 23. " See 1 Mace. 3. 37. 1. 51. ch. 6. 11 & 8.8. See Judg. 9.7. setting up trophies over enemies, and not over fellow-countrymen. 7 The of fice however he did not get, but, receiving shame as the end of his conspiracy, he passed again a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites. 8 At the last therefore he met with a miserable end: having been shut up at the court Cp. 2 Cor. of Aretas the prince of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued of all carried away out of the temple a thou21 As for Antiochus, when the had men, hated vas an apostate from the sand and eight hundred talents, he delaws, and held in abomination as the parted in all haste unto & Antioch, weenbutcher of his country and his fellow-ing in his arrogancy to make the land citizens, he was cast forth into Egypt; navigable and the sea passable by foot, 9 and he that had driven many from because his heart was lifted up. 22 And their own country into strange lands moreover he left governors to afflict "Cp. 1 Macc. perished himself in a strange land, the race: at Jerusalem, w Philip, by race having crossed the sea to the Lacedæ- a Phrygian, and in character more barmonians, as thinking to find shelter barous than him that set him there; there because they were a near of kin; 23and at Gerizim, Andronicus; and be- ch. 6. 2. 10 and he that had cast out a multitude sides these, Menelaus, who worse than unburied had none to mourn for him, all the rest exalted himself against his nor had he any funeral at all, or place fellow-citizens. And having a malicious in the sepulchre of his fathers. made his citizens, 24 he sent that 3 lord mind 2 toward the Jews whom he had of pollutions a Apollonius with an army Seel Maco. of two and twenty thousand, commanding him to slay all those that were of full age, and to sell the women and the younger men. rusalem, and playing the man of peace, 25 And he coming to Jewaited till the holy day of the sabbath, and finding the Jews at rest from work, he commanded his men to parade in arms. them that came forth to the spectacle; 26 And he put to the sword all and running into the city with the armed men he slew great multitudes. 27 But Judas, who is also called Maccabæus, See with nine others or thereabout, withdrew himself, and with his company kept himself alive in the mountains Cp. 1 Macc. after the manner of wild beasts; and they continued feeding on such poor herbs as grew there, that they might not be partakers of the threatened pollution. II Now when tidings came to the king concerning that which was done, he thought that Judæa was in revolt; whereupon setting out from Egypt in a furious mind, he took the city by force 41 Macc. 1. of arms, 12 and dcommanded his soldiers to cut down without mercy such as came in their way, and to slay such as went up upon the houses; 13 and there was killing of young and old, making away of boys, women, and children, slaying of virgins and infants. 14 And in all the three days of the slaughter there were destroyed fourscore thousand, whereof forty thousand were slain in close combat, and no fewer were sold than slain. See 1 Macc. 15 But not content with this he presumed to enter into the most holy temple of all the earth, having Menelaus for his guide (him that had proved himself a traitor both to the laws and to his country), 16 even taking the sacred vessels with his polluted hands, and dragging down with his profane hands the offerings that had been dedicated by other kings to the augmentation and glory and honour of the place. 17 And Antiochus was lifted up in mind, not seeing that because of the sins of them that dwelt in the city the Sovereign Lord had been provoked to anger a little while, and therefore his eye was then turned away from the place. 18 But had it not so been that they were already holden by many sins, this man, even "as Heliodorus who was sent by Seleucus the king to view Pthe treasury, would, so soon as he pressed forward, have been scourged and turned back from his daring deed. 19 Howbeit the Lord did not choose the nation for the place's sake, but the place for the And not long after this the king sent forth an old man of dAthens Cp. ch. 9. the laws of their fathers, and not to live to compel the Jews to depart from after the laws of God; afand also to Cp. ch. 8. 2 pollute the sanctuary in Jerusalem, and to call it by the name of 6Jupiter Olympius, and to call the sanctuary in Gerizim by the name of Jupiter thech. 5. 23. Protector of strangers, even as they See Judg. 7 were that dwelt in the place. 3 But sore and utterly grievous was the visitation of this evil. 4 For the temple Cp.1 Mace. was filled with riot and revellings by the heathen, who dallied with harlots, and had to do with women within the sacred precincts, and moreover brought inside things that were not befitting; 5 and 9the place of sacrifice was filled 4 Gr. 1 The Greek text here is uncertain. 9.7. 1. 45. Cp. 1 Maco. 1.46, 47. 1. 39. * Cp. ch. 14. 38. Cp. ver. 21 & ch. 7. 42. * Cp. ch. 14. 33 (& mg. for mg.). "Cp.1 Macc. 1. 51. • See ch. 4. 45. with those abominable things which had Seel Macc. been prohibited by the laws. 63 And a man could neither keep the sabbath, nor observe the feasts of the fathers, nor kso much as confess himself to be a Jew. 7 And on the day of the king's birth every month they were led along with bitter constraint to eat of the sacrifices; and when the 1feast of m Bacchus came, they were compelled to go in procession in honour of 2m Bacchus, wearing wreaths of ivy. 8 And there went out a decree to the neighbouring Greek cities, by the suggestion of Ptolemy, that they should observe the same conduct against the Jews, and should make them eat of the sacrifices; 9 and that they should P slay such as did not choose to go over to the Greek rites. So the present misery was for all to see: 10r for two women were brought up for having circumcised their children; and these, when they had led them publicly round about the city, with the babes hung from their breasts, they cast down headlong See 1 Macc. from the wall. 11 And others, & that had run together into the caves near by to keep the seventh day secretly, being betrayed to Philip were all burnt together, u because they scrupled to defend themselves, from regard to the honour of that most solemn day. P1 Macc. 1. 50. ? Cp. ch. . 13. Cp.1 Macc. 1. 60, 61. 1. 53. ch. 8. 22 & 8. 8. "See 1 Macc. 2. 32-38. "Cp. Hab. "See ch. 3. 24. v 1. 47. 2. 18. Cp. Prov. 16. 31 & 20. 29. to come that are resolute to repel such 12 I beseech therefore those that read 13. 28. Luke 12. 4, 5. Heb. 10, 31. Cp. 2 Esd. 7.56. dom 5. 4. Cp. Heb. 11. 36. Cp. Heb. And when he had said these words, he 7 And it came to pass that seven 1 Gr. feast of Dionysia. 2 Gr. Dionysus. 3 Or, when our sins be come to their height 4 Gr. end. 7 Or, but yet 11 The Greek 11. 35. Heb. 11. 39 & 12. 1. 18. Cp. ch. 6. * Cp. ch. 4. 48. * Cp. ch. 6. 19. P ver. 39. & 32. 36. Cp. Heb. 11. 36. ver. 21, 27. ch. 12. 37 & 15. 29. 7 And when the first had died after this manner, they brought the second to rthe mocking; and they pulled off the skin of his head with the hair and asked him, Wilt thou eat, before thy body be punished in every limb? 8 But he answered in the language of his fathers and said to them, No. Wherefore he also underwent the next torture in succession, as the first had done. 9 And when he was at the last gasp, he said, Thou, miscreant, dost release us out of this present life, but the King of the ver. 14, 23, world shall raise up us, who have died for his laws, unto an eternal renewal of life. thou doest what thou wilt; yet think 5, 6. 32, 33, 38 18 And after him they brought the sixth. And when he was at the point to die he said, Be not vainly deceived, for Cp. ver. we suffer these things for our own doings, as sinning against our own God: marvellous things are come to pass; 19 but think not thou that thou shalt be unpunished, having assayed to fight Cp. Acts against God. 5. 39. 5. See Ps. 139. 13-16. 24. cords, to compel them to taste of m the abominable swine's flesh. 2 But one of them made himself " the spokesman and said, What wouldest thou ask and learn of us? for we are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our fathers. 3PAnd the king fell into a rage, and commanded to heat pans and caldrons: 4 and when these forthwith were heated, he commanded to cut out the tongue of him that had been their spokesman, and to scalp him, and to cut off his extremities, the rest of his brethren and his mother looking on. 5 And when he was utterly 1maimed, the king commanded to 20 But above all was the mother bring him to the fire, being yet alive, marvellous and worthy of honourable and to fry him in the pan. And as the memory; for when she looked on seven vapour of the pan spread far, they and sons perishing within the space of one their mother also exhorted one another day, she bare the sight with a good couto die nobly, saying thus: 6 The Lord rage for the hopes that she had set on the God beholdeth, and in truth is 2 intreated Lord. 21 And she exhorted each one of Cp. Deut. for us, as Moses declared in this song, them in the language of their fathers, 31. 21, 26, which witnesseth against the people to filled with a noble temper and stirring 30 their faces, saying, And he shall be 2in-up her womanish thought with manly treated for his servants. passion, saying unto them, azy I know Eccles. 11. not how ye came into my womb, neither was it I that bestowed on you your spirit and your life, and it was not I that brought into order the first elements of each one of you. 23 Therefore * the Creator of the world, who fashioned See ch. 1. the 5 generation of man and devised the generation of all things, in mercy giveth back to you again both your Cp. ch. 14. spirit and your life, as ye now contemn your own selves for his laws' sake. 24 But Antiochus, thinking himself to be despised, and suspecting the reproachful Cp. ver. 8. voice, whilst the youngest was yet alive did not only make his appeal to him by words, but also at the same time promised with oaths that he would enrich Cp. 1 Mace. him and raise him to high estate, if he would turn from the customs of his fathers, and that he would take him for his Friend and intrust him with affairs. See ch. 8. 25 But when the young man would in no wise give heed, the king called unto him his mother, and exhorted her that she would counsel the lad to save himself. 26 And when he had exhorted her with many words, she undertook to persuade her son. 27 But bending toward him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, she spake thus sin the language of her fathers: My son, have pity upon me that carried thee nine months in my womb, and gave thee suck three years, and nourished and brought thee up unto this age, and sustained thee. 28I beseech thee, my child, to lift thine eyes unto the heaven and the earth, and to see all things that are therein, and thus to recognise that God made them not of things that were, and that the race of men in this wise cometh into being. 29 Fear not this butcher, but, proving Cp. ver. 24. 36. ch. 12. 43. 2 Esd. 14. 35. Heb. 11. 35. See Dan. 12.2. 10 And after him was the third made a mockingstock. And when he was required, he quickly put out his tongue, and stretched forth his hands courageously, and nobly said, From heaven I possess these; and for his laws' sake I contemn these; and from him I hope t to receive these back again: 12 insomuch that the king himself and they that were with him were astonished at the young man's soul, for that he nothing regarded the pains. 13 And when he too was dead, they shamefully handled and tortured the fourth in like manner. 14 And being come near unto death he said thus: It is good to die at the hands of men and look for the hopes which are given by God, that we shall be raised up again "Cp. 2 Esd. by him; for as for thee, "thou shalt have no resurrection unto life. 7. [79], [80]. 15 And next after him they brought the fifth, and shamefully handled him. 16 But he looked toward the king and said, Because thou hast authority among men, though thou art thyself corruptible, 1 Gr. useless. 2 Or, comforted in 3 Gr. him. 4 Or, breath 5 Or, first origin 9 See ch. 15. 37. A Cp. ver. 17. / See ch. 5. 17. * See ch. 5. 20. 'ch. 5. 17. 2 30 But before she had yet ended speaking, the young man said, Whom wait ye for? I obey not the commandment of the king, but I hearken to the commandment of the law that was given to our fathers through Moses. 31 But thou, that hast devised all manner of evil against the Hebrews, shalt in no wise escape the hands of God. 32 For we are suffering because of our own sins; 33and if for rebuke and chastening our living Lord hath been angered a little while, yet shall he again be reconciled with his own servants. 34 But thou, O unholy man and of all most vile, 'be not vainly lifted up in thy wild pride with uncertain hopes, raising thy hand against the heavenly children; 35 for not yet hast thou escaped the See ch. 15. judgement of the Almighty God m that seeth all things. 36 For these our brethren, having endured a short pain that bringeth everlasting life, have now 2died under God's covenant; but thou, through the judgement of God, shalt receive in just measure the penalties of thine arrogancy. 37 But I, as my brethren, give up both body and soul for the laws of our fathers, calling upon God that he may speedily become gracious to the nation; and that thou amidst trials and plagues Pmayest confess that he alone is God; 38 and that in me and my brethren thou mayest stay the wrath of the Almighty, 4 which hath been justly brought upon our whole race. 39 But the king, falling into a rage, handled him worse than all the rest, being exasperated at his mocking. 40 So he also died pure from pollution, putting his whole trust in the Lord. " Cp. 2 Cor. 4. 17. "See ch. 9. 5-8. P See ch. 9. 12-17. 1 Cp. ver. 32. r ver. 3. For ver. 1-7, seel Mace. 3. 1-9. 41 And last of all after her sons the mother died. 4 Let it then suffice to have said thus much concerning the enforcement of sacrificial feasts and the king's exceed ing barbarities. 8 with the ground; and to hearken to the 16. 8 But when a Philip saw the man gaining ground by little and little, and increasing more and more in his prosperity, he wrote unto Ptolemy, the ch. 6. 8 governor of Colesyria and Phoenicia, that he should support the king's cause. 9 And Ptolemy quickly appointed Ni-Seel Macc. canor the son of Patroclus, one of the king's Chief Friends, and sent him, in command of no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations, to destroy the whole race of Judæa; and with him he joined Gorgias also, a captain and one that had experience in matters of war. 10 And Nicanor 8g undertook by the sale of the captive Jews to make up for the king the tribute of two thousand talents which he was to pay to ver. 36. the Romans. * And immediately he sent unto the cities upon the sea coast, inviting them to buy Jewish slaves, promising to allow fourscore and ten slaves for a talent, not expecting the judgement that was to follow upon him from the Almighty. & 10, 13 Cp. 1 Macc. 3. 39. /See 1 Macc. 3. 38, ver. 25, 34, Cp. 1 Macc. 3. 41. 3. 42. 3. 56. 12 But tidings came to Judas icon-Cp. 1 Macc. cerning the inroad of Nicanor; and when he communicated to them that were with him the presence of the army, 13they that were cowardly and Cp.1 Macc. distrustful of the judgement of God 10 ran away and left the country. 14 And others sold all that was left over to 18 But Judas, who is also called them, and withal besought the Lord to Maccabæus, and they that were with deliver them that had been sold as slaves him, making their way privily into by the impious Nicanor or ever he met Seel Macc. the villages, called unto them their kins- them; 15 and this, if not for their own folk; and taking unto them such as had sakes, yet for the covenants made with continued in the Jews' religion, gathered their fathers, and because he had called together as many as six thousand. And them by his reverend and glorious name. they called upon the Lord, beseeching him 16 And Maccabæus gathered his men toto look upon the people that was op-gether, six thousand in number, mand Cp. ch. 15. pressed by all; and to have compassion exhorted them not to be stricken with on the sanctuary also that had been dismay at the enemy, nor to fear the profaned by the ungodly men; 3and to great multitude of the heathen who have pity on the city also that was suffer- came wrongfully against them; but to ing ruin and ready to be made even contend nobly, 17 setting before their 1 Gr. short pain of everflowing life. |