“When these things had been done, in hymns and confessions they blessed the Lord, who had done great things in Israel and had given them victory, etc. In the first book of this history it is written that Lysias, having had the affairs of the kingdom entrusted to him by Antiochus, who was surnamed Epiphanes or the Noble…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 2 Maccabees
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38When this was done, they praised the Lord with psalms and thanksgiving, who had done so great things for Israel, and given them the victory.
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36Others likewise ascending after them, whiles they were busied with them that were within, burnt the towers, and kindling fires burnt the blasphemers alive; and others broke open the gates, and, having received in the rest of the army, took the city,
37And killed Timotheus, that was hid in a certain pit, and Chereas his brother, with Apollophanes.