中英对照

1. 1.大约在这时，安提阿古开始了他对埃及的第二次入侵，耶松试图重新掌控局面。Jason Tries to Regain Control About this time Anti′ochus made his second invasion of Egypt.💡
2. 2.大约四十天的时间里，在全城上空，出现了穿着金色盔甲的骑兵，成群结队地在空中奔驰，手持长枪和拔出的刀——And it happened that over all the city, for almost forty days, there appeared golden-clad horsemen charging through the air, in companies fully armed with lances and drawn swords—💡
3. 3.骑兵队列整齐，左冲右突，盾牌闪耀，长矛林立，飞矢乱射，金色马饰闪闪发光，各种盔甲鳞次栉比。troops of horsemen drawn up, attacks and counterattacks made on this side and on that, brandishing of shields, massing of spears, hurling of missiles, the flash of golden trappings, and armor of all sorts.💡
4. 4.因此所有人都祈祷这次出现能够成为一个好的预兆。Therefore all men prayed that the apparition might prove to have been a good omen.💡
5. 5.当时流传着一个谣言，说安提阿哥已经死了，耶松带领至少一千人突然向城发起攻击。当城墙上的守军被迫后退，城池即将被攻陷之时，米拿勒在城堡中寻求庇护。When a false rumor arose that Anti′ochus was dead, Jason took no less than a thousand men and suddenly made an assault upon the city. When the troops upon the wall had been forced back and at last the city was being taken, Menela′us took refuge in the citadel.💡
6. 6.但是耶松毫不留情地屠杀自己的同胞，他没有意识到以牺牲自己的同胞为代价的成功是最大的不幸，而是认为自己是在为战胜敌人而设立胜利纪念碑，而不是在战胜自己的同胞。But Jason kept relentlessly slaughtering his fellow citizens, not realizing that success at the cost of one’s kindred is the greatest misfortune, but imagining that he was setting up trophies of victory over enemies and not over fellow countrymen.💡
7. 7.他并没有获得对政府的控制，最后却因阴谋而蒙羞，再次逃往亚扪人的地。He did not gain control of the government, however; and in the end got only disgrace from his conspiracy, and fled again into the country of the Am′monites.💡
8. 8.最后他落得一个悲惨的下场。在阿拉伯的统治者阿雷塔斯面前被指控，逃离一个城市又一个城市，遭到所有人的追捕，被视为违法的叛逆者，被憎恨为对自己国家和同胞的刽子手，他被抛弃在埃及的海岸上；Finally he met a miserable end. Accused before Ar′etas the ruler of the Arabs, fleeing from city to city, pursued by all men, hated as a rebel against the laws, and abhorred as the executioner of his country and his fellow citizens, he was cast ashore in Egypt;💡
9. 9.他曾将许多人从自己的国家驱逐出境，最终自己死在异乡。他曾启程前往拉刻代蒙，希望因为他们的亲缘关系而获得保护。and he who had driven many from their own country into exile died in exile, having embarked to go to the Lacedaemo′nians in hope of finding protection because of their kinship.💡
10. 10.曾经使许多人无法安葬的他，却没有人为他哀悼；他没有任何葬礼，也没有在他祖先的坟墓中占有一席之地。He who had cast out many to lie unburied had no one to mourn for him; he had no funeral of any sort and no place in the tomb of his fathers.💡
11. 11.当有关发生的事情的消息传到王那里时，他以为犹大已经起义。因此，在内心愤怒的驱使下，他离开了埃及，并以极大的愤怒攻占了这座城市。When news of what had happened reached the king, he took it to mean that Judea was in revolt. So, raging inwardly, he left Egypt and took the city by storm.💡
12. 12.他命令士兵们无情地杀死他们遇到的每一个人，并杀死那些进入房屋的人。And he commanded his soldiers to cut down relentlessly every one they met and to slay those who went into the houses.💡
13. 13.然后发生了年幼和年长者被杀，男孩、妇女和孩子被毁灭，处女和婴儿被杀戮。Then there was killing of young and old, destruction of boys, women, and children, and slaughter of virgins and infants.💡
14. 14.在三天之内，八万人被消灭，其中四万人死于近身战斗；与被杀的人数相同的被卖为奴隶。Within the total of three days eighty thousand were destroyed, forty thousand in hand-to-hand fighting; and as many were sold into slavery as were slain.💡
15. 15.抢劫圣殿 安提阿古不以此为满足，他竟敢进入世界上最圣洁的殿宇，并且是由米拿勒做向导，米拿勒已经背叛了律法，也背叛了自己的国家。Pillage of the Temple Not content with this, Anti′ochus dared to enter the most holy temple in all the world, guided by Menela′us, who had become a traitor both to the laws and to his country.💡
16. 16.他用不洁的双手拿走了圣器，用亵渎的双手扫除了其他列王为使圣所荣耀和尊贵而献上的供物。He took the holy vessels with his polluted hands, and swept away with profane hands the votive offerings which other kings had made to enhance the glory and honor of the place.💡
17. 17.安提阿古精神高涨，却没有意识到上帝是因为城里居民的罪过而暂时发怒，并因此忽视了圣所。Anti′ochus was elated in spirit, and did not perceive that the Lord was angered for a little while because of the sins of those who dwelt in the city, and that therefore he was disregarding the holy place.💡
18. 18.但如果他们没有陷入许多罪恶之中，这个人就会在他刚刚开始行动时，因受到鞭打而被迫回头，正如赫利奥多罗斯一样，塞琉古王曾派他去检查宝库。But if it had not happened that they were involved in many sins, this man would have been scourged and turned back from his rash act as soon as he came forward, just as Heliodor′us was, whom Seleu′cus the king sent to inspect the treasury.💡
19. 19.但主并非为圣地的缘故而选择这国，乃是为国的缘故而选择这地方。But the Lord did not choose the nation for the sake of the holy place, but the place for the sake of the nation.💡
20. 20.因此，这个地方本身也分享了降临到这个国家的灾难，并且后来分享了它的益处；而在全能者的愤怒中被抛弃的东西，当伟大的主与人和好时，又恢复了它全部的荣耀。Therefore the place itself shared in the misfortunes that befell the nation and afterward participated in its benefits; and what was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty was restored again in all its glory when the great Lord became reconciled.💡
21. 21.安提阿古从圣殿中掠夺了1800塔伦，急忙回到安提阿。他心高气傲，自以为可以在陆地上航行，在海上行走，因为他的心灵得到了高举。So Anti′ochus carried off eighteen hundred talents from the temple, and hurried away to Antioch, thinking in his arrogance that he could sail on the land and walk on the sea, because his mind was elated.💡
22. 22.他留下官员来苦害百姓：在耶路撒冷，有一个名叫腓力的官员，腓力生来是弗吕家人，性情比任命他的人更加残暴；And he left governors to afflict the people: at Jerusalem, Philip, by birth a Phryg′ian and in character more barbarous than the man who appointed him;💡
23. 23.以及在革利细山的安得洛尼库斯，此外还有米拿拉俄，他比其他人更糟糕地欺压他的同胞。在他对犹太同胞的恶意中，and at Geri′zim, Androni′cus; and besides these Menela′us, who lorded it over his fellow citizens worse than the others did. In his malice toward the Jewish citizens,💡
24. 24.安提阿古王派遣米西亚的军队统领阿波罗尼乌带领二万二千人的军队，命令他杀死所有成年男子，并将妇女和孩子卖为奴隶。Anti′ochus sent Apollo′nius, the captain of the My′sians, with an army of twenty-two thousand, and commanded him to slay all the grown men and to sell the women and boys as slaves.💡
25. 25.当这人到达耶路撒冷时，他假装和平，等到圣安息日；然后，发现犹太人不工作，他命令他的士兵带着武器列队。When this man arrived in Jerusalem, he pretended to be peaceably disposed and waited until the holy sabbath day; then, finding the Jews not at work, he ordered his men to parade under arms.💡
26. 26.他用刀杀死了所有出来见他们的人，然后带着他的武装人员冲进城里杀死了大量的人。He put to the sword all those who came out to see them, then rushed into the city with his armed men and killed great numbers of people.💡
27. 27.但犹大·马加比和大约九个其他人逃到了荒野，像野生动物一样在山里保持自己和同伴的生命，他们继续靠野生植物生存，以免分享受玷污。But Judas Maccabe′us, with about nine others, got away to the wilderness, and kept himself and his companions alive in the mountains as wild animals do; they continued to live on what grew wild, so that they might not share in the defilement.💡