1 Maccabees 16:6
“When the commander, on seeing the people anxious about crossing the flood, crossed first, he showed that those who fulfill in the Church the place of the sick and the office of teacher ought, by the example of their faith and commitment, to strengthen the fearfulness of their subjects, and with sacred trumpets, that i…”
6So he and his people pitched over against them: and when he saw that the people were afraid to go over the water brook, he went first over himself, and then the men seeing him passed through after him.
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4So he chose out of the country twenty thousand men of war with horsemen, who went out against Cendebeus, and rested that night at Modin.
5And when as they rose in the morning, and went into the plain, behold, a mighty great host both of footmen and horsemen came against them: howbeit there was a water brook betwixt them.
— 1 Maccabees 16:6 —
7That done, he divided his men, and set the horsemen in the midst of the footmen: for the enemies’ horsemen were very many.
8Then sounded they with the holy trumpets: whereupon Cendebeus and his host were put to flight, so that many of them were slain, and the remnant gat them to the strong hold.