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they fought against the tyrant for both Simon and John, attacking his generals and defeating them by the counter-attack of their own sons, who for this reason were called Maccabees, along with those who at that time, with divine zeal, contended for the ancestral laws; among them also the seven youths very bravely, with their mother and their teacher Eleazar, despising many and bitter tortures, lawfully ended their lives, being perfected by a martyr's death. Those from Mattathias are called Hasmonaeans, because their father was called Asamonaeus. He lived in the village of Modein. The Tarsians and Mallotians revolted against Antiochus, as they were being given as a gift to his concubine, Antiochis; Antiochus came to them, leaving Andronicus in charge of affairs at Daphne, who, having killed Onias the priest through the treachery of Menelaus, was himself killed by Antiochus as a murderer. The 9th king of Syria was Antiochus Eupator his son, for 1 year, 6 months. And it was the year of the world 5321. This Antiochus, having struck Egypt and waged war against Ptolemy 346 Philometor, returned to Judea, and he entrusted the high priesthood to Jesus, who was also called Jason, the brother of Onias, and again, casting him out, he gave it to his brother, Menelaus. But they, stirring up sedition against each other, became the cause of great evils for the Jews. YEARS OF THE WORLD The 16th high priest of the Jews was Judas, son of Mattathias the 1st high priest, for 3 years, but some say 6. And it was the year of the world 5334. Some record 3 years for the high priesthood of Mattathias and 6 years for Judas. The 17th high priest of the Jews was Jonathan, brother of Judas the Maccabee, for 19 years. And it was the year of the world 5340. The friends of Judas appointed his brother Jonathan to rule them. He, joining battle with Bacchides, destroyed three thousand of those with him. And after these things, perceiving that certain of the Jews were betraying him to Bacchides, he killed them and went to a city lying in the desert, Beth-basi. Bacchides besieged this. But Jonathan, slipping out and killing many, drove him away. Alcimus the unholy, having torn down the wall of the court of the sanctuary, paid the penalty, dying bitterly. Bacchides, fearing Jonathan, made friends with him, and from this, Jonathan presided over the people. Alexander Balas, son of Antiochus Epiphanes, having deposed Demetrius son of Seleucus, reigned for 5 years, but some say 9. He, having been befriended by Jonathan in Ptolemais, honored him with gifts and crowns. The 18th high priest of the Jews was Simon, for 8 years. And it was the year of the world 5359. Simon and the Jews, having fled to Demetrius, were at peace. From which time Simon was high priest, and he took Gaza by war, and those in the citadel of Jerusalem after Demetrius. Antiochus Sidetes is befriended by Simon. Antiochus Sidetes demanded Joppa and 1000 talents of silver from the Jews. 347 But when they did not obey, he ordered Cendebeus to make war on them, whom John, the son of Simon, put to flight. Simon, high priest of the Jews, brother of Judas and Jonathan the Maccabees, is killed by a certain Ptolemy, a Jewish general of Jericho and his son-in-law, by treachery. This Simon, after 170 years, freed the Jews from taxes. For they had been paying them since the 1st Seleucus. Mattathias, the father of the Maccabees, led the Jews for 3 years. Judas his son for 6 years. Jonathan for 19 years. Simon for 8 years. In total, 34 years. And Judas makes a treaty with the Romans. Concerning the Maccabees The period from Mattathias the father of the Maccabees, Judas and Jonathan and Simon, according to the accurate account, is 34 years, as has been set down, but according to Eusebius, 30 years. For the writing of the Maccabees relates history from the time Ptolemy Philopator began to wage war against Antiochus the Great; but their time is numbered from Antiochus Epiphanes until the death of Simon. For Philopator, having warred against Antiochus the Great, released the Jews, setting them free, but the Jews made a treaty with Antiochus Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the Great. But this same Epiphanes plundered the temple and forced the Jews to Hellenize. Then Mattathias rose up with the

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Σίμωνί τε καὶ Ἰωάννῃ κατηγωνίσαντο τοῦ τυράννου, τοῖς αὐτοῦ στρατηγοῖς ἐπιθέμενος καὶ καταπολεμήσας αὐτοὺς τῇ τῶν οἰκείων παίδων ἀντιμαχίᾳ τῶν καὶ διὰ τοῦτο Μακκαβαίων κλη θέντων ἅμα τοῖς τότε ζήλῳ θείῳ τῶν πατρίων νόμων ὑπεραθλησάντων· ἐν οἷς καὶ οἱ ζʹ νέοι σφόδρα γενναίως σὺν τῇ μητρὶ καὶ τῷ διδασκάλῳ Ἐλεαζάρῳ πολλῶν καὶ πικρῶν βασάνων ὑπερφρονήσαντες νομίμως τὸν βίον κατέλυσαν, θανάτῳ μαρτυρικῷ τελειωθέντες. Ἀσαμωναῖοι λέγονται οἱ ἐκ Ματαθίου, διότι ὁ πατὴρ αὐτῶν Ἀσαμωναῖος ἐλέγετο. ᾤκει δὲ ἐν κώμῃ Μωδεείμ. Ταρσεῖς καὶ Μαλῶται κατὰ Ἀντιόχου ἐστασίασαν ὡς δωρεᾷ διδόμενοι τῇ παλλακῇ αὐτοῦ Ἀντιοχίδι· πρὸς οὓς ἧκεν Ἀντίοχος, Ἀνδρόνικον καταλείψας ἐν ∆άφνῃ ἐπὶ τῶν πραγμάτων, ὃς ἀνελὼν Ὀνείαν τὸν ἱερέα δόλῳ τοῦ Μενελάου, καὶ αὐτὸς ἀναιρεῖται ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἀντιόχου ὡς φονεύς. Συρίας θʹ ἐβασίλευσεν Ἀντίοχος Εὐπάτωρ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἔτος αʹ, μῆνας ςʹ. τοῦ δὲ κόσμου ἦν ἔτος ετκαʹ. Ἀντίοχος οὗτος πατάξας Αἴγυπτον καὶ πρὸς τὸν Φιλομήτορα Πτολε 346 μαῖον πολεμήσας εἰς τὴν Ἰουδαίαν ἐπανῆλθε, τὴν ἀρχιερωσύνην τε Ἰησοῦ τῷ καὶ Ἰάσωνι ἐνεχείρισεν ἀδελφῷ Ὀνείου, καὶ πάλιν ἐκβαλὼν αὐτὸν ἀδελφῷ τε καὶ Μενελάῳ δέδωκεν. οἱ δὲ στασιάσαντες πρὸς ἀλλήλους κα κῶν μεγάλων αἴτιοι γεγόνασιν Ἰουδαίοις. ΚΟΣΜΟΥ ΕΤΗ Ἰουδαίων ιςʹ ἀρχιεράτευσεν Ἰούδας υἱὸς Ματαθίου αʹ ἀρχιερέως ἔτη γʹ, οἱ δὲ ςʹ. τοῦ δὲ κόσμου ἦν ἔτος ετλδʹ. Τινὲς ἱστοροῦσι Ματαθίου ἔτη γʹ τῆς ἀρχιερωσύνης καὶ Ἰούδα ἔτη ςʹ. Ἰουδαίων ιζʹ ἀρχιεράτευσεν Ἰωνάθης ἀδελφὸς Ἰούδα τοῦ Μακκαβαίου ἔτη ιθʹ. τοῦ δὲ κόσμου ἦν ἔτος ετμʹ. Οἱ φίλοι τοῦ Ἰούδα τὸν Ἰωνάθην ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ προεστήσαντο ἄρχειν αὐτῶν. οὗτος Βακχίδῃ συμβαλὼν εἰς πόλεμον διέφθειρε τρισχιλίους τῶν σὺν αὐτῷ. μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα προδιδόντας αὐτόν τινας τῶν Ἰουδαίων αἰσθόμε νος τῷ Βακχίδῃ ἀνεῖλεν αὐτοὺς καὶ διῆγεν εἰς πόλιν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ κειμένην Βηθφεσή. ταύτην ἐπολιόρκησε Βακχίδης. Ἰωνάθης δὲ ὑπεξελθὼν καὶ πολλοὺς διαφθείρας ἀπελαύνει αὐτόν. Ἄλκιμος ὁ ἀνίερος καθελὼν τὸ τεῖχος τῆς αὐλῆς τῶν ἁγίων δίκας ἔδωκε πικρῶς θανών. Βακχίδης φοβηθεὶς Ἰωνάθην φιλοῦται αὐτῷ, κἀκ τούτου προΐσταται τοῦ λαοῦ Ἰωνάθης. Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ τοῦ Βαλλᾶ υἱὸς Ἀντιόχου τοῦ Ἐπιφανοῦς ∆ημήτριον τὸν Σελεύκου καθελὼν ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτη εʹ, οἱ δὲ θʹ. οὗτος ἐν Πτολεμαΐδι φιλωθεὶς Ἰωνάθῃ δώροις καὶ στεφάνοις ἐτίμησεν. Ἰουδαίων ιηʹ ἱεράτευσε Σίμων ἔτη ηʹ. τοῦ δὲ κόσμου ἦν ἔτος ετνθʹ. Σίμων καὶ Ἰουδαῖοι ∆ημητρίῳ προσφυγόντες εἰρήνευον. ἐξ οὗ δὴ Σίμων ἀρχιεράτευσε, Γάζαν τε πολέμῳ εἷλε τούς τε ἐν τῇ ἄκρᾳ τῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμ μετὰ ∆ημήτριον. Ἀντίοχος ὁ Σιδίτης Σίμωνι φιλοῦται. Ἀντίοχος ὁ Σιδίτης Ἰώππην καὶ ἀργυρίου τάλαντα α ἀπῄτει Ἰουδαίους. 347 τῶν δὲ μὴ ὑπακουόντων Κενδέβαιον ἐπέταξε πολεμεῖν αὐτοῖς, ὃν Ἰωάν νης υἱὸς Σίμωνος ἐτροπώσατο. Σίμων Ἰουδαίων ἀρχιερεὺς ἀδελφὸς Ἰούδα καὶ Ἰωνάθου τῶν Μακκαβαίων ἀναιρεῖται ὑπὸ Πτολεμαίου τινὸς Ἰουδαίου στρατηγοῦ τῆς Ἱεριχὼ καὶ γαμβροῦ αὐτοῦ δόλῳ. Οὗτος ὁ Σίμων μετὰ ροʹ ἔτη τοὺς Ἰουδαίους ἠλευθέρωσε τῶν φόρων. ἐτέλουν γὰρ ἀπὸ τοῦ αʹ Σελεύκου. Ἡγήσατο τῶν Ἰουδαίων Ματθίας ὁ πατὴρ τῶν Μακκαβαίων ἔτη γʹ. Ἰούδας υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἔτη ςʹ. Ἰωνάθης ἔτη ιθʹ. Σίμων ἔτη ηʹ. ὁμοῦ ἔτη λδʹ. Καὶ σπένδεται Ῥωμαίοις Ἰούδας. Περὶ τῶν Μακκαβαίων Ὁ ἀπὸ Ματαθίου τοῦ πατρὸς τῶν Μακκαβαίων, Ἰούδα καὶ Ἰωνάθου καὶ Σίμωνος, χρόνος κατὰ μὲν τὸν ἀκριβῆ λόγον ἐτῶν ἐστι λδʹ, ὡς ὑπο τέτακται, κατὰ δὲ Εὐσέβιον ἐτῶν λʹ. ἀφ' οὗ γὰρ χρόνου Πτολεμαῖος ὁ Φιλοπάτωρ ἤρξατο πολεμεῖν πρὸς Ἀντίοχον τὸν μέγαν ἡ τῶν Μακκαβαίων γραφὴ ἱστορεῖ· ὁ δὲ χρόνος αὐτῶν ἀπὸ Ἀντιόχου τοῦ Ἐπιφανοῦς ἀριθμεῖται ἕως τοῦ θανάτου Σίμωνος. ὁ γὰρ Φιλοπάτωρ πολεμήσας Ἀντιόχῳ τῷ μεγάλῳ τοὺς Ἰουδαίους ἀφῆκεν ἀπολύσας ἐλευθέρους, Ἰουδαῖοι δὲ τῷ Ἐπιφανεῖ Ἀντιόχῳ υἱῷ τοῦ μεγάλου Ἀντιόχου συνέθεντο. ὁ δ' αὐτὸςἘπιφανὴς τὸν ναὸν ἐσύλησε καὶ Ἰουδαίους ἑλληνίζειν ἠνάγκασε. Τότε Ματαθίας ἀνέστη σὺν τοῖς