3 Maccabees 1:22-24

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²² In addition, the bolder of the citizens would not tolerate the completion of his plans or the fulfillment of his intended purpose. ²³ They shouted to their compatriots to take arms and die courageously for the ancestral law and created a considerable disturbance in the place, and, being barely restrained by the old men and the elders,^[a] they resorted to the same posture of supplication as the others.^{(A) 24} Meanwhile, the crowd, as before, was engaged in prayer,