Even to the number of a thousand souls ? JUDAS. Be Elohim Yehovah! We who are fighting for our laws and Lord, thou didst send thine Angel in lives "This is a lover of the Jews, who SCENE I. - JUDAS MACCABEUS; CAP prayeth Much for the people and the Holy City, God's prophet Jeremias." And the prophet 40 Held forth his right hand and gave unto me Shrubs growing in its courts as in a forest; And it would ill become me to conceal Upon its altars hideous and strange My name or office. idols; places! JUDAS. (Lamentation and alarm of trumpets.) Justice prevents thee. my captains; JUDAS. Justice? Thou art stained With every crime 'gainst which the Decalogue Thunders with all its thunder. JASON. If not Justice, I hold you back no longer. Batter Then Mercy, her handmaiden. down JEWS. JUDAS. When hast thou At any time, to any man or woman, 20 Or even to any little child, shown mercy? JASON. I have but done what King Antiochus Lurking among the ruins of the Tem- Commanded me. |