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In former times, when there was no mingling with the Gentiles, he had been accused of Judaism, and he had most zealously risked body and life for Judaism.
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Nicanor, wishing to exhibit the enmity that he had for the Jews, sent more than five hundred soldiers to arrest him;
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for he thought that by arresting him he would do them an injury.
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When the troops were about to capture the tower and were forcing the door of the courtyard, they ordered that fire be brought and the doors burned. Being surrounded, Razis fell upon his own sword,
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preferring to die nobly rather than to fall into the hands of sinners and suffer outrages unworthy of his noble birth.
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