“This citadel does not signify the height of virtues, but the excellence of vain glory: for they offer leadership to sinners who dare to rise up in pride; and evil spirits can also be seen in these leaders, who belong to the one who said: I will ascend into heaven and set my throne in the north, and I will be like the…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees
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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.
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1Then took Gorgias five thousand footmen, and a thousand of the best horsemen, and removed out of the camp by night;
— 1 Maccabees 4:2 —
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,
4While as yet the forces were dispersed from the camp.