# 2 Maccabees · 9 > https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9 ## Verses [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-738a397ca42f89be3041) **Latin** Eodem tempore, Antiochus inhoneste revertebatur de Perside. **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-a431dc21500084281aad) **Latin** Intraverat enim in eam quæ dicitur Persepolis, et tentavit expoliare templum, et civitatem opprimere : sed multitudine ad arma concurrente, in fugam versi sunt : et ita contigit ut Antiochus post fugam turpiter rediret. **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-51d615e65f2b8ce7b8f8) **Latin** Et cum venisset circa Ecbatanam, recognovit quæ erga Nicanorem et Timotheum gesta sunt. **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-5d4da59ebdbb384b8c9f) **Latin** Elatus autem in ira, arbitrabatur se injuriam illorum qui se fugaverant posse in Judæos retorquere : ideoque jussit agitari currum suum sine intermissione agens iter, cælesti eum judicio perurgente, eo quod ita superbe locutus est se venturum Jerosolymam, et congeriem sepulchri Judæorum eam facturum. **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-c9a99567837d7d8a5257) **Latin** Sed qui universa conspicit Dominus Deus Israël, percussit eum insanabili et invisibili plaga. Ut enim finivit hunc ipsum sermonem, apprehendit eum dolor dirus viscerum, et amara internorum tormenta : **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-db8941e9bfe92ba71d70) **Latin** et quidem satis juste, quippe qui multis et novis cruciatibus aliorum torserat viscera, licet ille nullo modo a sua malitia cessaret. **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-d18c4bffa042bddf03b6) **Latin** Super hoc autem superbia repletus, ignem spirans animo in Judæos, et præcipiens accelerari negotium, contigit illum impetu euntem de curru cadere, et gravi corporis collisione membra vexari. **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-280b739fac2695c16a42) **Latin** Isque qui sibi videbatur etiam fluctibus maris imperare, supra humanum modum superbia repletus, et montium altitudines in statera appendere, nunc humiliatus ad terram in gestatorio portabatur, manifestam Dei virtutem in semetipso contestans : **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-3dd53cfa29a281509a99) **Latin** ita ut de corpore impii vermes scaturirent, ac viventis in doloribus carnes ejus effluerent, odore etiam illius et fœtore exercitus gravaretur : **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-c297fce5deb3b72375f2) **Latin** et qui paulo ante sidera cæli contingere se arbitrabatur, eum nemo poterat propter intolerantiam fœtoris portare. **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-44b28169590526f68717) **Latin** Hinc igitur cœpit ex gravi superbia deductus ad agnitionem sui venire, divina admonitus plaga, per momenta singula doloribus suis augmenta capientibus. **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-40022955d80a097e447c) **Latin** Et cum nec ipse jam fœtorem suum ferre posset, ita ait : Justum est subditum esse Deo, et mortalem non paria Deo sentire. **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-9cddad593f73adeac016) **Latin** Orabat autem hic scelestus Dominum, a quo non esset misericordiam consecuturus. **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-77f0bcf628a6b2c6b32a) **Latin** Et civitatem, ad quam festinans veniebat ut eam ad solum deduceret ac sepulchrum congestorum faceret, nunc optat liberam reddere : **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-e93f4ea4f81375c9a221) **Latin** et Judæos, quos nec sepultura quidem se dignos habiturum, sed avibus ac feris diripiendos traditurum, et cum parvulis exterminaturum dixerat, æquales nunc Atheniensibus facturum pollicetur : **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-ad0dbb7caa8136e57bff) **Latin** templum etiam sanctum, quod prius expoliaverat, optimis donis ornaturum, et sancta vasa multiplicaturum, et pertinentes ad sacrificia sumptus de redditibus suis præstaturum : **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-a344e3eeceed7e93233c) **Latin** super hæc, et Judæum se futurum, et omnem locum terræ perambulaturum, et prædicaturum Dei potestatem. **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-292f98d53276b7e92ddb) **Latin** Sed non cessantibus doloribus (supervenerat enim in eum justum Dei judicium), desperans scripsit ad Judæos in modum deprecationis epistolam hæc continentem : **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-ea8c03b9efa00fc49552) **Latin** Optimis civibus Judæis plurimam salutem, et bene valere, et esse felices, rex et principes Antiochus. **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-0b9188f9827bc9369014) **Latin** Si bene valetis, et filii vestri, et ex sententia vobis cuncta sunt, maximas agimus gratias. **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-4a377fb8b3ab2ddc2997) **Latin** Et ego in infirmitate constitutus, vestri autem memor benigne reversus de Persidis locis, et infirmitate gravi apprehensus, necessarium duxi pro communi utilitate curam habere : **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-558828010cd7e67a3b8c) **Latin** non desperans memetipsum, sed spem multam habens effugiendi infirmitatem. **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-ec73ab42682871a72627) **Latin** Respiciens autem quod et pater meus, quibus temporibus in locis superioribus ducebat exercitum, ostendit qui post se susciperet principatum : **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-67cd7490abc0fa3b8079) **Latin** ut si quid contrarium accideret, aut difficile nuntiaretur, scientes hi qui in regionibus erant, cui esset rerum summa derelicta, non turbarentur. **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-3ac038d6962289bd3c26) **Latin** Ad hæc, considerans de proximo potentes quosque et vicinos temporibus insidiantes, et eventum exspectantes, designavi filium meum Antiochum regem, quem sæpe recurrens in superiora regna multis vestrum commendabam : et scripsi ad eum quæ subjecta sunt. **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-2b08b45b7a9fd92ff7f8) **Latin** Ora itaque vos, et peto memores beneficiorum publice et privatim, ut unusquisque conservet fidem ad me et ad filium meum. **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-1b9b77d3fcc49350a3f4) **Latin** Confido enim eum modeste et humane acturum, et sequentem propositum meum, et communem vobis fore. **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-21478efda9e3bd77c058) **Latin** Igitur homicida et blasphemus pessime percussus, et ut ipse alios tractaverat, peregre in montibus miserabili obitu vita functus est. **English** This passage has not yet been translated. [↗](https://missale.online/biblia/en/2mcc/9#text-66af0bf07849f0763ec9) **Latin** Transferebat autem corpus Philippus collactaneus ejus : qui, metuens filium Antiochi, ad Ptolemæum Philometorem in Ægyptum abiit. **English** This passage has not yet been translated.