Holy Scripture
1 Maccabees 5:6
A church father on this verse
“By the sons of Ammon, which is interpreted "son of my people," are signified schismatics and heretics, who once seemed to be sons of the holy Church, but now, withdrawing and casting themselves into error, have become sons of the Devil. Therefore the apostle John says: They went out from us, but they were not of us; f…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
6Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a mighty power, and much people, with Timothy their captain.
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4Also he remembered the injury of the children of Baean, who had been a snare and an offense unto the people, in that they lay in wait for them in the ways.
5He shut them up therefore in the towers, and encamped against them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned the towers of that place with fire, and all that were therein.
— 1 Maccabees 5:6 —
7So he fought many battles with them, till at length they were discomfited before him; and he smote them.
8And when he had taken Jazer, with the towns belonging thereto, he returned into Judea.