AAt þe; same tyme Antiochus made him
ready to go againe in to Egipte. Th&ebar;
were there sene at Ierusalem (xl. dayes
l&obar;ge) horsm&ebar; runninge to and fro in the ayre,
which had rayment of golde, ∧ speares. There
were sene also whole hoostes of m&ebar; weapened,
∧ horses runnynge in an ordre, how they
came together, how they helde forth their
shildes, how þe; harnessed men drew out their
sweardes, ∧ shot their dartes. The shyne of
þe; gold&ebar; weap&ebar;s was sene, ∧ of all maner of
armure. Wherfore euery m&abar; prayed, þt; those
tokens might turne to good. Now wh&ebar; there
was gone forth a false rumo&highr;, as though
Antiochus had bene deed: Iason toke a M.
m&ebar;, ∧ came sod&ebar;ly vp&obar; þe; cite. The citesyns r&abar;ne
vnto þe; walles, at þe; last was þe; cite taken,
and Menelaus fled in to the castell.
B As for Iason, he spared not his owne citesyns
in the slaughter, nether considered he
what greate euell it were, to destroye þe; prosperite
of his owne kynsmen: but dyd as one
that had gotten the victory of his enemies,
and not of his frendes. For all this gatt
he not the superiorite, but at the last receaued
confucion for his malice, note and fled agayne
like a vagabunde in to the londe of the
Ammonites. Fynally (for a rewarde of his
wickednesse) he was accused before Aretha
the kynge of the Arabians: In so moch that
he was fayne to fle from cite to cite, beynge
despysed of euery man as a forsaker of the
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lawes, and an abhominable personne. And
at þe; last (as an open enemy of his owne naturall
countre and of the citesyns,) he was
dryuen in to Egipte.
Thus he þt; afore put many out of their
owne natyue londe, peryshed from home
him self. He wente to Lacedemon, thinkinge
there to haue gotten sucoure by reason of
kynrede. And he that afore had casten many
one out vnburied, was throwen out him
self, no man mournynge for him, ner puttinge
him in his graue: so that he nether enioyed
þe; buriall of a straunger, nether was he partaker
of his fathers sepulcre.
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C Now when this was done the kinge suspecte,
þt; the Iewes wolde haue fallen from
him: wherfore he came in a greate displeasure
out of Egipte, ∧ toke the cite by violence.
noteHe c&obar;maunded his men of warre also, that
they shulde kyll ∧ not spare, but slaye downe
soch as &wt; stode them, or clymmed vp vp&obar;
þe; houses. Thus was there a greate slaughter
of yonge men, olde men, women, children
and virgins. In iij. dayes were there slayne
lxxx.M, fourty thousande put in preson, ∧ no
lesse solde. Yet was he not c&obar;tent &wt; this, but
durst go in to the most holy temple (Menelaus
that traytoure to þe; lawes ∧ to his owne
naturall countre, beynge his gyde) ∧ with
his wicked hondes toke þe; holy vessell, which
other kynges ∧ cities had geuen thither for
þe; garnishinge ∧ hono&highr; of þe; place: th&ebar; toke he
in his h&obar;des vnworthely, ∧ defyled them.
D So madd was Antiochus, that he considered
not, how that God was a litle wroth
for the synnes of them that dwelt in the cite,
for the which soch confucion came vpon
that place. noteAnd why? yf it had not happened
them to haue bene lapped in many synnes,
this Antiochus (as soone as he had come)
had sodenly bene punished, and shot out
for his presumpci&obar;: note like as Heliodorus was,
whom Seleucus the kynge sente to robbe þe;
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
them. And like as it is now forsaken in the
wrath of allmighty God, so when the greate
God is reconcyled, it shal be set vp in hye
worshipe agayne.
E So when Antiochus had taken a M. and
viij.C. talentes out of the temple, he gat him
to Antioche in all the haist, thinkinge in his
pryde, that he might make m&ebar; sale vpon the
drye londe, and to go vpon þe; see, soch an hye
mynde had he. He lefte debites there to vexe
the people: At Ierusalem left he Philippe a
Phrigian, in maners more cruell th&ebar; himself
þt; set him there: At Garisim he left Andronicus
∧ Menelaus, which were more greuous
to the citisyns then other. Now as he was
thus set in malyce agaynst þe; Iewes, note he sent
Appollonius an hated prynce, &wt; xxij.M. c&obar;maundinge
him to slaye all those þt; were of
perfecte age, and to sell the wom&ebar;, maydes ∧
children. When he came now to Ierusalem,
he fained peace, ∧ kepte him still vntill þe; Sabbath
daye. And then he c&obar;maunded his men
to take them to their weapens (for þe; Iewes
kepte holy daye) and so he slewe all them þt;
were gone forth to the open playe, runninge
here and there thorow the cite with his men
wapened, and murthured a greate nombre.
noteBut Iudas Machabeus which was the
tenth, fled in to the wyldernesse, led his life
there with his company amonge the wylde
beestes and vpon the mountaynes: dwellinge
there and eatinge grasse, lest they shulde
be partakers of the fylthynesse.
