ange torments.

2 Mac 9:7
Howbeit he nothing at all ceased from his bragging, but still
was filled with pride, breathing out fire in his rage against
the Jews, and commanding to haste the journey: but it came to
pass that he fell down from his chariot, carried violently; so
that having a sore fall, all the members of his body were much
pained.

2 Mac 9:8
And thus he that a little afore thought he might command the
waves of the sea, (so proud was he beyond the condition of man)
and weigh the high mountains in a balance, was now cast on the
ground, and carried in an horselitter, shewing forth unto all
the manifest power of God.

2 Mac 9:9
So that the worms rose up out of the body of this wicked man,
and whiles he lived in sorrow and pain, his flesh fell away, and
the filthiness of his smell was noisome to all his army.

2 Mac 9:10
And the man, that thought a little afore he could reach to
the stars of heaven, no man could endure to carry for his
intolerable stink.

2 Mac 9:11
Here therefore, being plagued, he began to leave off his
great pride, and to come to the knowledge of himself by the
scourge of God, his pain increasing every moment.

2 Mac 9:12
And when he himself could not abide his own smell, he said
these words, It is meet to be subject unto God, and that a man
that is mortal should not proudly think of himself if he were
God.

2 Mac 9:13
This wicked person vowed also unto the Lord, who now no more
would have mercy upon him, saying thus,

2 Mac 9:14
That the holy city (to the which he was going in haste to lay
it even with the ground, and to make it a common buryingplace,)
he would set at liberty:

2 Mac 9:15
And as touching the Jews, whom he had judged not worthy so
much as to be buried, but to be cast out with their children to
be devoured of the fowls and wild beasts, he would make them all
equals to the citizens of Athens:

2 Mac 9:16
And the holy temple, which before he had spoiled, he would
garnish with goodly gifts, and restore all the holy vessels with
many more, and out of his own revenue defray the charges
belonging to the sacrifices:

2 Mac 9:17
Yea, and that also he would become a Jew himself, and go
through all the world that was inhabited, and declare the power
of God.

2 Mac 9:18
But for all this his pains would not cease: for the just
judgment of God was come upon him: therefore despairing of his
health, he wrote unto the Jews the letter underwritten,
containing the