“Judas sends messengers to the Romans to establish friendship and alliance with them; this signifies that our Redeemer, through His preachers, offers the Gospel of peace to the nations and calls them to His faith. They in turn wrote back on bronze tablets what had been requested, and sent them to Jerusalem, so that the…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees
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1Now Judas had heard of the Romans, that they were mighty and valiant men, and such as would lovingly accept all that joined themselves unto them, and make a league of amity with all that came unto them;
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— 1 Maccabees 8:1 —
2And that they were men of great valour. It was told him also of their wars and noble acts which they had done among the Galatians, and how they had conquered them, and brought them under tribute;
3And what they had done in the country of Spain, for the winning of the mines of the silver and gold which is there;