2
Knowing that religious reasoning is lord of the passions, and those not only inward but outward.
3
When those persons giving up their bodies to pains for the sake of religion, were not only admired by men, but were deemed worthy of a divine portion.
4
And the nation through them obtained peace, and having renewed the observance of the law in their country, drove the enemy out of the land.
5
And the tyrant Antiochus was both punished upon earth, and is punished now he is dead; for when he was quite unable to compel the Israelites to adopt foreign customs, and to desert the manner of life of their fathers,
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then, departing from Jerusalem, he made war against the Persians.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.