§ VII. I Macc. vi. i.-vii. 4; see also 2 Macc. ix. i-ii.
VII. About this time went the foresaid Antiochus
to the Persian people with great strength;
he would there overcome a wealthy city;
hut he was chased thence and shamefully escaped,
and with much anxiety out of the country turned
towards Babylon; and it was there told him
how Judas overcame his enemies with weapons,
and how he had cleansed the holy temple of God
from all the abominations that he formerly set up there.
He was then vexed, and eke afflicted with sickness,
because God was angry with him, and he raged terribly,
saying and affirming that it had so happened to him,
because that he treated God's temple reproachfully,
and would destroy the faithful ones out of their land.
Then worms rose out of him, out of his afflicted body,
and he stank so foully that no one could carry him,
and he then evilly and miserably ended (his life),
in a foreign land, (going) to eternal torments;
and his son Eupator reigned after him.
He was likewise inclined so that he wished to slay
the believing Jews, who believed then in God.
They believed then, in the old manner, in Almighty God,
though that some of them [afterwards] denied the Saviour,
and even so slew (Him), as He himself desired.
Well then, Eupator, Antiochus' son,
gathered his army far and near,
and sent a hundred thousand of marching men,
and twenty thousand of mounted men,
and thirty elephants, all tamed,
