35 “Lord of all, though you are in need of nothing, you were pleased to have a temple for your dwelling place among us.
36 Therefore, Holy One, Lord of all holiness, preserve forever undefiled this house, which has been so recently purified.”
37 A certain Razis, one of the elders of Jerusalem, was denounced to Nicanor as a patriot. A man highly regarded, he was called a father of the Jews because of his goodwill toward them.
38 In the days before the revolt, he had been convicted of being a Jew, and had risked body and soul in his ardent zeal for Judaism.
39 Nicanor, to show his disdain for the Jews, sent more than five hundred soldiers to arrest him.
40 He thought that by arresting that man he would deal the Jews a hard blow.
41 But when the troops, on the point of capturing the tower, were forcing the outer gate and calling for fire to set the door ablaze, Razis, now caught on all sides, turned his sword against himself,