2 Maccabees 15:9-11

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁹ And speaking to them out of the law, and the prophets, and withal putting them in mind of the battles they had fought before, he made them more cheerful:

¹⁰ Then after he had encouraged them, he shewed withal the falsehood of the Gentiles, and their breach of oaths.

¹¹ So he armed every one of them, not with defence of shield and spear, but with very good speeches and exhortations, and told them a dream worthy to be believed, whereby he rejoiced them all.