The truce holds only on paper, and Judas moves front to front: the harbors of Joppa and Jamnia burned for drowning their Jewish neighbors, Timothy routed beyond the Jordan, Gorgias driven off in Idumea. Then his men gather the bodies of their own fallen for burial and find, hidden under the tunics of the dead, tokens of the idols of Jamnia that the law forbids, and the reason for their deaths stands plain. Judas takes up a collection of silver and sends it to Jerusalem for a sin offering on their behalf, and the writer commends the act as a holy and wholesome thought. The passage became the scriptural warrant for praying for the dead, and in time for the doctrine of purgatory; the Reformers, who set the book outside the canon, did not carry the practice forward. Its reasoning runs from the resurrection outward: if the dead can still be helped, then to pray for them is at once an act of love and a confession that they will rise.