2 Maccabees 2:23-25

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²³ And recovered again the most renowned temple in all the world, and delivered the city, and restored the laws that were abolished, the Lord with all clemency shewing mercy to them.

²⁴ And all such things as have been comprised in five books by Jason of Cyrene, we have attempted to abridge in one book.

²⁵ For considering the multitude of books, and the difficulty that they find that desire to undertake the narrations of histories, because of the multitude of the matter,