“For that apostolic assembly, filled with the grace of the Holy Spirit, everywhere sincerely preached the word of God, rejoicing in tribulations and in hardships and in necessities, increasing and multiplying everywhere the number of believers in the Lord.”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees
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2And all his brethren helped him, and so did all they that held with his father, and they fought with cheerfulness the battle of Israel.
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1Then his son Judas, called Maccabeus, rose up in his stead.
— 1 Maccabees 3:2 —
3So he gat his people great honour, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girt his warlike harness about him, and he made battles, protecting the host with his sword.
4In his acts he was like a lion, and like a lion’s whelp roaring for his prey.