that you are so disposed he
will not overlook you, but will have a great value for your virtue, and
will restore to you again what you have lost, and will return to
you that freedom in which you shall live quietly, and enjoy your own
customs. Your bodies are mortal, and subject to fate; but they receive a
sort of immortality, by the remembrance of what actions they have done.
And I would have you so in love with this immortality, that you may
pursue after glory, and that, when you have undergone the greatest
difficulties, you may not scruple, for such things, to lose your
lives. I exhort you, especially, to agree one with another; and in what
excellency any one of you exceeds another, to yield to him so far, and
by that means to reap the advantage of every one's own virtues. Do you
then esteem Simon as your father, because he is a man of extraordinary
prudence, and be governed by him in what counsels be gives you. Take
Maccabeus for the general of your army, because of his courage and
strength, for he will avenge your nation, and will bring vengeance on
your enemies. Admit among you the righteous and religious, and augment
their power."

4. When Mattathias had thus discoursed to his sons, and had prayed to
God to be their assistant, and to recover to the people their former
constitution, he died a little afterward, and was buried at Modin; all
the people making great lamentation for him. Whereupon his son Judas
took upon him the administration of public affairs, in the hundred forty
and sixth year; and thus, by the ready assistance of his brethren, and
of others, Judas cast their enemies out of the country, and put those of
their own country to death who had transgressed its laws, and purified
the land of all the pollutions that were in it.

CHAPTER 7. How Judas Overthrew The Forces Of Apollonius And Seron And
Killed The Generals Of Their Armies Themselves; And How When, A Little
While Afterwards Lysias And Gorgias Were Beaten He Went Up To Jerusalem
And Purified The Temple.

1. When Apollonius, the general of the Samaritan forces, heard this,
he took his army, and made haste to go against Judas, who met him, and
joined battle with him, and beat him, and slew many of his men, and
among them Apollonius himself, their general, whose sword being that
which he happened then to wear, he seized upon, and kept for himself;
but he wounded more than he slew, and took a great deal of prey from the
enemy's camp, and wen