A   At the same tyme Antioch&us; made hym ready to go agayne into Egypte. Th&ebar; were there sene at Ierusal&ebar; .xl. dayes longe, horsm&ebar;, runnynge to and fro in the ayre, whych had raym&ebar;t of golde, ∧ speares. There were sene also whole hoostes of men weapened, and horses runnynge in an ordre, how they came together, how they helde forth theyr shyldes, how the harnessed men drew out theyr sweardes, and shott their dartes

The shyne of the golden weapens was sene, and of all maner of armure. Wherfore euery man prayed, that those tok&ebar;s myght turne to good. Now when there was gone forth a false rumour, as though Antiochus had bene deed: Iason toke a .M. men, and came sodenly vpon the cytie. The citesyns r&abar;vnto the walles, at the last was the citie taken, ∧ Menelaus fled into the castell.

B   As for Iason, he spared not his awne citesyns in the slaughter, nether c&obar;sydered he what greate euell it were, to destroye þe; prosperite of his awne kynsm&ebar;: but dyd as one that had gotten the victory of his enemies, and not of hys frendes. For all this gatt he not the superiorite, but at þe; last receaued c&obar;fusyon for hys malyce. ^note and fled agayne lyke a vagabunde into the l&abar;de of the Ammonytes.

Finally, for a rewarde of his wyckednesse he was accused before Aretha the kynge of the Arabi&abar;s. In so moch that he was fayne to fle from cytie to cytie, beynge depysed of euery man as a forsaker of the lawes, ∧ an abhominable personne. And at the last (as an open enemy of hys awne natural countre and of the cytesyns) he was dryuen into Egypte.

Thus he that afore put many out of theyr awne natyue land, peryshed fr&obar; home hym self. He went to Lacedem&obar;, thynck&ibar;ge there to haue gott&ebar; succoure by reason of kynred. And he that afore had casten many one out vnburyed, was throwen out hym selfe, no man mournynge for hym, ner puttynge him in his graue: so that he nether enioyed þe; buriall of a straunger, nether was he partaker of hys fathers sepulcre.

C   Now wh&ebar; this was done, the kyng suspecte, that the Iewes wolde haue fallen from hym: wherfore he came in a greate dyspleasure out of Egypte, ^note ∧ toke þe; cytie by viol&ebar;ce. He commaunded hys men of warre also, that they shuld kyl ∧ not spare, but slaye downe soch as withstode them, or clymed vp vpon the houses.

Thus was there a greate slaughter of yonge men, olde men, wemen, children and virgines. In .iii. dayes were there slayne .lxxx.M. fourty thousande put in preson, &abar;d no lesse solde. Yet was he not cont&ebar;t &wt; thys but durst go into the moost holy t&ebar;ple (Menelaus that traytoure to the lawes ∧ to his awne naturall countre, beyng his gyde) and with his wicked h&abar;des toke the holy vessel, which other kynges ∧ cyties had geu&ebar; thyther for the garnyshinge ∧ honour of þe; place: them toke he in his h&abar;des vnworthely, ∧ defyled them.

D   So madd was Antiochus, that he consydered not, how that God was a lytle wroth for the synnes of them that dwelt in þe; cytie, for the whych soch confusy&obar; came vp&obar; that place. ^noteAnd why? yf it had not happened th&ebar; to haue bene lapped &ibar; many synnes, this Antiochus (as sonne as he had come) had sodenly bene punyshed, and shutt out for hys pres&ubar;ption, ^note lyke as Heliodorus was, wh&obar; Seleucus the kynge sente 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 þe; peoples trouble, but afterwarde shall it enioye the wealth of th&ebar;. And lyke as it is now forsak&ebar; in the wrath of almyghty God, so when the greate God is reconcyled, it shall be sett vp in hye worshyp agayne

E   So when Antiochus had taken a M. and viii.C. talentes out of the temple, he gat h&ibar; to Antioche in all the haste, thynckyng &ibar; his pride, that he myght make m&ebar; sayle vpon þe; drye land, and to go vpon þe; see, soch an hye mynde had he. He lefte debytes there, to vexe the people: At Ierusalem left he Philyppe a Phrigi&abar;, in maners more cruell th&ebar; him selfe þt; set him there: At Garysim he left Andronic&us; ∧ Menelaus, which were more greuous to the cytesins th&ebar; other. ^noteNow as he was thus set in malyce against the Iewes, he sent Appolonius an hated prynce, wyth xxii.M. commaunding him to slaye those þt; were of perfect age, and to sell the wemen, maydens ∧ childr&ebar;. Wh&ebar; he cam now to Ierusalem, he fayned peace, ∧ kepte hym styll vntyl the Sabboth daye. And then he commaunded his m&ebar; to take them to their weapens (for the Iewes kepte holy daye) ∧ so he slew all them that were gone forth to þe; op&ebar; playe, r&ubar;nyng here ∧ there thorow the cytie wyth hys men weapened, and murthured a great n&obar;bre. ^noteBut iudas Machabe&us; which was the tenth, fled into the wyldernesse, led hys lyfe there wyth hys company amonge wylde beastes and vpon the mountaynes,

dwellynge there and eat&ibar;ge grasse, lest they shuld be partakers of the fylthynesse.

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