| II Maccabees 13:15
| And having given his company for a watchword, The victory of God, with most valiant chosen young men, he set upon the king's quarter by night, and slew four thousand men in the camp, and the greatest of the elephants, with them that had been upon him,
| Watchword that night. (Worthington) --- He usually gave some pious sentence, chap 7:23. --- Quarter. Literally, "hall," (Haydock) a praetorium, or tent. --- Four. Some Greek and Latin copies have "two." Syriac, "three," though the old edition of the Vulgate read, 14,000. --- Greatest, carrying thirty-two men, 1 Machabees 6:37. Greek also, "the chief over the elephants, with all his troop in the house," (Haydock) or the servants. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "will all that were upon him." (Haydock) --- This office was very considerable, 2 Machabees 14:12. (Grotius) (Calmet)
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