“John, indeed, after his father had been deceitfully killed, carefully keeps watch against the enemy and puts to death the men who had come to destroy him, because anyone from the number of the faithful who is saved by the grace of God and is wise and concerned about preserving his own salvation, when he learns of the…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees 16
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21Now one had run afore to Gazera and told John that his father and brethren were slain, and, quoth he, Ptolemee hath sent to slay thee also.
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19He sent others also to Gazera to kill John: and unto the tribunes he sent letters to come unto him, that he might give them silver, and gold, and rewards.
20And others he sent to take Jerusalem, and the mountain of the temple.
— 1 Maccabees 16:21 —
22Hereof when he heard, he was sore astonished: so he laid hands on them that were come to destroy him, and slew them; for he knew that they sought to make him away.
23As concerning the rest of the acts of John, and his wars, and worthy deeds which he did, and the building of the walls which he made, and his doings,