1 Maccabees 2:48-50

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴⁸ And they recovered the law out of the hands of the nations, and out of the hands of the kings: and they yielded not the horn to the sinner.

⁴⁹ Now the days drew near that Mathathias should die, and he said to his sons: Now hath pride and chastisement gotten strength, and the time of destruction, and the wrath of indignation:

⁵⁰ Now therefore, O my sons, be ye zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers.