And this was his vision: That Onias, who had been high priest, a virtuous and a good man, reverend in conversation, gentle in condition, well spoken also, and exercised from a child in all points of virtue, holding up his hands prayed for the whole body of the Jews.

Take this holy sword, a gift from God, with the which thou shalt wound the adversaries.

Thus went it with Nicanor: and from that time forth the Hebrews had the city in their power. And here will I make an end.