“Note, reader, that the opposing party which was joined to Gorgias arranges all its war preparations at night; and Judas and his followers do so during the day: for the workers of wickedness and executors of errors are always defiled, rulers of darkness hating the light of divine commandments and loving the obscurity o…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees
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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,
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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;
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.
— 1 Maccabees 4:3 —
4While as yet the forces were dispersed from the camp.
5In the mean season came Gorgias by night into the camp of Judas: and when he found no man there, he sought them in the mountains: for said he, These fellows flee from us