Holy Scripture
1 Maccabees 13:29
A church father on this verse
“Indicating their weakness and uprightness in faith, and how in that same faith they fought against enemies with spiritual weapons.”
Source: Septuagint
Original
29And in these he made cunning devices, about the which he set great pillars, and upon the pillars he made all their armor for a perpetual memory, and by the armor ships carved, that they might be seen of all that sail on the sea.
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27Simon also built a monument upon the sepulcher of his father and his brethren, and raised it aloft to the sight, with hewn stone behind and before.
28Moreover he set up seven pyramids, one against another, for his father, and his mother, and his four brethren.
— 1 Maccabees 13:29 —
30This is the sepulcher which he made at Modein, and it standeth yet unto this day.
31Now Trypho dealt deceitfully with the young King Antiochus, and slew him.