1O Israelites, children born of the seed of Abraham, obey this Law, and be righteous in all ways,
2recognizing that Inspired Reason is lord over the passions, and over pains, not only from within, but from without ourselves ;
3by which means those men, delivering up their bodies to the torture for righteousness’ sake, not only won the admiration of mankind, but were deemed worthy of a divine inheritance.
4And through them the nation obtained peace and restoring the observance of the Law in our country hath captured the city from the enemy.
5And vengeance hath pursued the tyrant Antiochus upon earth, and in death he suffers punishment. For when he failed utterly to constrain the people of Jerusalem to live like Gentiles and abandon the customs of our fathers, he thereupon left Jerusalem and marched away against the Persians.