understanding religiously, concerning the resurrection of us all.
Excepting he believed that they, after long delay,
would arise from death, they who there were slain,
otherwise he offered in vain his offering.
But he verily considered that they that with true religion
in death shall decease, that they with the Lord shall have
the happiest gift in the true life.
It is a holy thought, and religious to pray
for those who are departed, that they may be released from sins.
§ VI. 2 Macc. X. 24-38.
VI. It saith in the Second Book of Maccabees thus;
that Timotheus, who before fled at the ford from Judas,
that he again gathered a second army to him,
and wished with weapons to subdue the Jews, R
and came then with an army, ready to fight;
and Machabeus the bold cried to God,
and his fellows also, praying for help.
They went then from the city, emboldened by God,
and they fought together firmly with weapons.
Lo! then wonderfully came five angels from heaven,
riding on horses with golden apparel,
and twain of the angels on both sides of Judas
were fighting, and eke defended him;
and they all five fought on the side of Judas,
shooting their arrows and fiery lightnings
on the heathen people, till they, lying-down, died,
twenty thousand men, and six hundred [horsemen] slain.
Timotheus then fled, seized with fright,
into a town; and after him went
Judas with assistance, and fought without
