2 Maccabees 8:33-35

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³³ While they were celebrating the victory in the city of their ancestors, they burned those who had set fire to the sacred gates, Callisthenes and some others, who had fled into one little house, so these received the proper reward for their impiety.^[a](A)

³⁴ The thrice-accursed Nicanor, who had brought the thousand merchants to buy the Jews,^{(B) 35} having been humbled with the help of the Lord by opponents whom he regarded as of the least account, took off his splendid uniform and made his way alone like a runaway slave across the country until he reached Antioch, having succeeded chiefly in the destruction of his own army!