A   At the same time Antiochus made hym ready to agayne into Egipt Then were there sene at Ierusalem, xl. dayes longe, horsemen runnynge to and fro in the ayre, whych had rayment of golde, and speares. Ther were sene also whole hoostes of men weapened, ∧

horses runnynge in an ordre, how they came together, how they helde forth theyr shildes, how the harnessed men drew out their sweardes, and shot their dartes.

The shyne of the golden weapens was sene, and of all maner of armure. Wherfore euery man prayed, that those tokens myghte turne to good. Now when there was gone forth a false rumoure, as though Antiochus had bene dead: Iason toke a .M. m&ebar;, ∧ came sodenly vpon the cytye. The cytesins ranne vnto the walles, at the last was the cytye taken, ∧ Menelaus fled into the castell.

B   As for Iason, he spared not hys owne cytesins in the slaughter, neither considered he what great euell it were, to destroye the prosperite of hys own kynsmen: but dyd as one that had gotten the victory of hys enemyes, and not of his frendes. ^noteFor all this gat he not the superioritie, but at the laste receyued confusion for hys malyce, and fled agayne lyke a vagabunde into the lande of the Ammonytes.

Fynally, for a rewarde of his wickednesse he was accused before Aretha the kynge of the Arabians: In so much that he was fayne to fle from cytye to cytye, beynge despised of euery man as a forsaker of the lawes, and an abhominable personne. And at the laste (as an open enemy of hys owne natural co&ubar;trey and of the cytesins) he was dryuen into Egypte.

Thus he that afore put many out of their owne natiue lande, perished from home him self. He w&ebar;t to Lacedemon, thynkynge there to haue gott&ebar; succoure by reason of kynred. And he that afore had casten many one oute vnburyed, was throwen out hym self, no m&abar; mournyng for hym, nor puttynge him in his graue: so that he neyther enioyed the buriall of a straunger, neither was he partaker of hys fathers sepulchre.

C   Now when this was done the kynge suspecte, that the Iewes wolde haue fall&ebar; from hym: wherefore he came in a greate dyspleasure out of Egypt, and toke the citye by violence. ^noteHe commaunde hys m&ebar; of warre also that they should kyl and not spare, but slaye doune such as withstode theym, or clymmed vp vpon the houses.

Thus was there a great slaughter of y&obar;g men, olde men, women, chyldren and virgines. In .iij. dayes were there slayne .lxxx. M fourthy thousand put in pryson, and no lesse solde. Yet was he not content with thys, but durst go into the moost holy temple (Menelaus that traytuure to the lawes and to hys owne naturall country, beynge his gyde) ∧ with his wicked handes toke the holy vessel, which other kynges ∧ cyties had geuen thyther for the garnishing ∧ honour of the place them toke he in hys handes vnworthely, and defyled them.

So madde was Antiochus, that he considered not, how that God was a litle wrothe for the synnes of them that dwelt in the citie, for the which such confusion came vp&obar; that place. And why? if it had not happened them to haue bene lapped in many sinnes, thys Antiochus (as soone as he had come) had sodenly bene punished, and shotte out for hys presumpcyon, ^note lyke as Helyodorus was, whome Seleucus the kyng sent to robbe the treasury. Neuertheles God hath not chosen the people for the places sake, but the place for the peoples sake: and therfore is the place become partaker of the peoples trouble, but afterwarde shall it enioye the wealth of th&ebar;. And lyke as it is now forsaken in the wrath of almighty God, so when the great God is reconcyled, it shall be set vp in hys worshipe agayne.

E   So when Antiochus had taken a .M. and viij. talentes out of the temple, he gatte hym to Antioche in all the haste, thinkynge in hys pryde, that he might make men sayle vp&obar; the drye lande, and to go vp&obar; the sea, such an hye mynde had he. He lefte debytes there to vexe the people: At Hierusalem left he Philippe a Phrigi&abar;, in maners more cruel then him self that set him there: At Garysim he left Andronicus and Menelaus, which were more greuous to the cytesins then other. Nowe as he was thus set in malyce agaynste the Iewes, he sent Appollonius an hated prynce, wyth xxij.M. commaunding hym to slaye al those that were of perfect age, ∧ to sell the wom&ebar;, maydes ∧ chyldren. When he came now too Hierusal&ebar;, he fayned peace, ∧ kepte him styll vntil the Sabboth day. And then he c&obar;maunded hys m&ebar; to take th&ebar; to their weap&ebar;s (for þe; Iewes kept holy daye) ∧ so he slewe all th&ebar; þt; were gone forth to the op&ebar; play, r&ubar;ning here ∧ there thorow the cytie with hys m&ebar; weapened, ∧ murthered a great n&ubar;bre. But Iudas Machabeus whiche was the tenth, fled into the wildernesse, led his life there with his c&obar;pany am&obar;g the wilde beastes ∧ vp&obar; the mo&ubar;taynes, dwelling there, ∧ eatynge grasse, lest they should be partakers of the filthinesse.

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