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Whosoever is zealous of the law, and maintaineth the covenant, let him follow me! - Mattathias
" "Whosoever is zealous of the law, and maintaineth the covenant, let him follow me!
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Mattathias ben Johanan was a Kohen (Jewish priest) who sparked the Maccabean Revolt against the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, which was led by his five sons Judas Maccabeus (Judah Maccabee), Eleazar Avaran, Simon Thassi (Simeon), John Gaddi, and Jonathan Apphus (Yonatan). Their story is related in the deuterocanonical book of 1 Maccabees and in the writings of Josephus, and is commemorated each year on Hanukkah.
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Woe is me! wherefore was I born to see this misery of my people, and of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it was delivered into the hand of the enemy, and the sanctuary into the hand of strangers? Her temple is become as a man without glory. Her glorious vessels are carried away into captivity, her infants are slain in the streets, her young men with the sword of the enemy. 10 What nation hath not had a part in her kingdom, and gotten of her spoils? All her ornaments are taken away; of a free woman she is become a bondslave. And, behold, our sanctuary, even our beauty and our glory, is laid waste, and the Gentiles have profaned it. To what end therefore shall we live any longer?
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Though all the nations that are under the king's dominion obey him, and fall away every one from the religion of their fathers, and give consent to his commandments: Yet will I and my sons and my brethren walk in the covenant of our fathers. God forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances. We will not harken to the king's words, to go from our religion, either on the right hand, or on the left.
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