36. so now, O holy Lord of all hallowing, keep undefiled for ever this house that has been lately cleansed.
37. Now information was given to Nicanor against one Razis, an elder of Jerusalem, as being a lover of his countrymen and a man of very good report, and one called Father of the Jews for his good will toward them.
38. For in the former times when there was no mingling with the Gentiles he had been accused of cleaving to the Jews’ religion, and had jeoparded body and life with all earnestness for the religion of the Jews.
39. And Nicanor, wishing to make evident the ill will that he bare to the Jews, sent above five hundred soldiers to take him;
40. for he thought by taking him to inflict a calamity upon them.
41. But when the troops were on the point of taking the tower, and were forcing the door of the court, and bade bring fire and burn the doors, he being surrounded on every side fell upon his sword,