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No wonder if Judas and his brethren, with the whole assembly of Israel, made a decree that this feast should be kept year by year for eight days together, the feast-day of the altar’s dedication.✻ Came that season, from the twenty-fifth day of Casleu onwards, all was to be rejoicing and holiday. (1 Maccabees 4, 59)
So, when the seventh month came round, in the hundred and sixtieth year, Jonathan clad himself with the sacred vesture at the feast of Tent-dwelling; an army he levied besides, and made weapons of war in great abundance. (1 Maccabees 10, 21)
Feast-day and new moon and sabbath, and all other such solemnities as are appointed to be observed, with the three days before and after the feast itself, shall be days of immunity and respite for all the Jews in my realm; (1 Maccabees 10, 34)
Never feast-day passes, nor day apt for remembrance, but you are remembered, as brothers should be, in sacrifice and prayer we offer; (1 Maccabees 12, 11)
And there, in a castle he had built for himself, Doch is the name of it, the son of Abobus gave them treacherous welcome. A great feast he made, but he had men waiting in readiness, (1 Maccabees 16, 15)
… No other mind had king Solomon, that for eight days would continue his dedication feast.✻ (2 Maccabees 2, 12)
Instead, they went to sacrifice on the king’s birthday, though it were ruefully and under duress; and when the feast of Liber came round, make procession they must in Liber’s honour, garlanded with ivy each one. (2 Maccabees 6, 7)
Eight days of rejoicing they kept, with such ceremonies as belong to the feast of Tent-dwelling; it was a feast of tent-dwelling indeed they had kept a while back, when they lodged like beasts among the hill-side caverns! (2 Maccabees 10, 6)
they would keep holiday on the thirteenth of the Syrian month Adar, which is the eve of Mardochaeus’ feast.✻ (2 Maccabees 15, 37)
To the friendless, every day brings trouble, but every day is a feast-day to a contented heart. (Proverbs 15, 15)
Better sit down to a dish of herbs seasoned with charity, than feast on a fattened ox in ill-will. (Proverbs 15, 17)
Better a visit paid where men mourn, than where they feast; it will put thee in mind of the end that awaits us all, admonish the living with the foreknowledge of death. (Ecclesiastes 7, 3)
