36 therefore now, O holy Lord of all holiness, keep this house ever undefiled, which lately was cleansed, and stop every unrighteous mouth.
37 Now was there accused unto Nica´nor one Razis, one of the elders of Jerusalem, a lover of his countrymen, and a man of very good report, who for his kindness was called a father of the Jews.
38 For in the former times, when they mingled not themselves with the Gentiles, he had been accused of Judaism, and did boldly jeopardize his body and life with all vehemency for the religion of the Jews.
39 So Nica´nor, willing to declare the hate that he bare unto the Jews, sent above five hundred men of war to take him:
40 for he thought by taking him to do the Jews much hurt.
41 Now when the multitude would have taken the tower, and violently broken into the outer door, and bade that fire should be brought to burn it, he being ready to be taken on every side fell upon his sword;
42 choosing rather to die manfully, than to come into the hands of the wicked, to be abused otherwise than beseemed his noble birth: