“When the persecutors of the faithful, on the spiritual sabbath, on which the worshipers of Christ themselves withdraw from earthly desires to hear the word of God and to sing praise to the Lord, stirred up by envy strive to disturb them, and attempt to profane the sacrament of baptism by secular power, the mystical Jo…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees
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43Now when Bacchides heard hereof, he came on the sabbath day unto the banks of Jordan with a great power.
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41Thus was the marriage turned into mourning, and the noise of their melody into lamentation.
42So when they had avenged fully the blood of their brother, they turned again to the marsh of Jordan.
— 1 Maccabees 9:43 —
44Then Jonathan said to his company, Let us go up now and fight for our lives, for it standeth not with us to day, as in time past:
45For, behold, the battle is before us and behind us, and the water of Jordan on this side and that side, the marsh likewise and wood, neither is there place for us to turn aside.