“The battle grows intense when the pagans, by open persecution, and the heretics, by deceitful seduction, assail the Church of Christ. And many fall wounded from both these and those, when the wicked, envying the good, fall stricken by the weapons of their own hatred in great numbers: they are forced by the torments in…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees
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17Whereupon there was a sore battle, insomuch as many were slain on both parts.
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15Who discomfited the right wing, and pursued them unto the mount Azotus.
16But when they of the left wing saw that they of the right wing were discomfited, they followed upon Judas and those that were with him hard at the heels from behind:
— 1 Maccabees 9:17 —
18Judas also was killed, and the remnant fled.
19THen Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of his fathers in Modin.