2 Maccabees 14:37
“Some people read this and, finding written there that Razias, inflicting death on himself with his own hand, chose to die nobly rather than be subject to sinners and to be treated with unworthy wrongs contrary to his native dignity, I have judged it useful to insert into this work of ours certain passages from the wor…”
37Now was there accused unto Nicanor one Razis, one of the elders of Jerusalem, a lover of his countrymen, and a man of very good report, who for his kindness was called a father of the Jews.
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35Thou, O Lord of all things, who hast need of nothing, wast pleased that the temple of thine habitation should be among us:
36Therefore now, O holy Lord of all holiness, keep this house ever undefiled, which lately was cleansed, and stop every unrighteous mouth.
— 2 Maccabees 14:37 —
38For in the former times, when they mingled not themselves with the Gentiles, he had been accused of Judaism, and did boldly jeopard his body and life with all vehemency for the religion of the Jews.
39So Nicanor, willing to declare the hate that he bare unto the Jews, sent above five hundred men of war to take him: