“Gorgias took five thousand into his army, just as the Devil strives to gather to himself those who are given over to the five carnal senses of the body through the allurements of pleasure; he takes a thousand cavalry with him, as he intends to conduct all his warfare in pride and contempt of the commandments of God, s…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees
Original
1Then took Gorgias five thousand footmen, and a thousand of the best horsemen, and removed out of the camp by night;
Modern
Preparing…
Teens
Preparing…
Kids
Preparing…
In context
— 1 Maccabees 4:1 —
2To the end he might rush in upon the camp of the Jews, and smite them suddenly. And the men of the fortress were his guides.
3Now when Judas heard thereof he himself removed, and the valiant men with him, that he might smite the king’s army which was at Emmaus,