“As the enemies came from the opposite direction into battle, the allies of Judah sounded the trumpet, and the nations were crushed, because through the sound of the trumpet the voice of preaching is expressed; the soldiers of Judah sound the trumpet, when the preachers of Christ proclaim the Gospel throughout the whol…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees
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12Then the strangers lifted up their eyes, and saw them coming over against them.
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10Now therefore let us cry unto heaven, if peradventure the Lord will have mercy upon us, and remember the covenant of our fathers, and destroy this host before our face this day:
11That so all the heathen may know that there is one who delivereth and saveth Israel.
— 1 Maccabees 4:12 —
13Wherefore they went out of the camp to battle; but they that were with Judas sounded their trumpets.
14So they joined battle, and the heathen being discomfited fled into the plain.