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Judas Macabeo, que reunió a todos los soldados y los llamó macabeos, porque tenía que ponerles nombre.
Judah Maccabee, who gathered all of these fighters, and he called them The Maccabees because he got to name them.
"Los hermanos macabeos enfrentando a los griegos", también una onda guerrilla anti-imperialista, guerrillera, contra enemigos enormemente poderosos y de derrota en derrota.
The Maccabean brothers fighting the Greeks, kind of guerrillas... they were too. Anti-imperialist freedom fighters... against huge odds, from defeat to defeat.
-El Macabeo era sólo un pastor --dije rápidamente.
“The Maccabean was but a shepherd,” I put in quickly.
Él sí que era un Macabeo.-Había una sombra de dolor en su voz.
He was indeed a Maccabean.” There was a shadow of regret in his voice.
El libro de Daniel fue redactado durante la guerra macabea.
The book of Daniel was composed during the Maccabean war.
Esperábamos un Macabeo, y sólo tenemos aquí a un adivino.
We expected a Maccabean, and we have a soothsayer.
-Los Macabeos hallaron a Dios en la fuerza de su brazo derecho.
“The Maccabean found God in a good right arm.”
-En el principio -dije- los Macabeos eran un puñado, menos que nosotros;
“In the beginning,” I said, “the Maccabeans were a handful, fewer than we.
Según dijo Judas Macabeo: «Muchos pueden ser vencidos por los pocos.
‘Many,’ observed Judah the Maccabean, ‘can be overpowered by the few.
-Entonces el Señor debió aprobar que los Macabeos derramaran sangre el sábado.
Then the Lord must have approved the Maccabeans shedding blood on the Sabbath.
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