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ay, and go uncircumcised; forgotten, their loyalty to the holy covenant, they must throw in their lot with the heathen, and become the slaves of impiety. (1 Maccabees 1, 16)
what an ambush laid about the holy place, what devil’s work against Israel! (1 Maccabees 1, 38)
And, for the more profanation of the sanctuary, and of Israel’s holy people, (1 Maccabees 1, 49)
and die they must, because they would not break God’s holy law. (1 Maccabees 1, 66)
Alas, what needed it, cried Mattathias, I should have been born into such an age as this? To see my people and the holy city alike brought to ruin, to sit by while the enemy overcame her, (1 Maccabees 2, 7)
What saw they? The holy place desolate, the altar profaned, charred gates, courts overgrown with brushwood, like forest clearing or mountain glen, the priests’ lodging in ruins. (1 Maccabees 4, 38)
And what did Judas? First, he sent a force to engage the citadel’s garrison, while the holy place was a-cleansing; (1 Maccabees 4, 41)
incense be put on the altar, lamps kindled to light the holy place, (1 Maccabees 4, 50)
Meanwhile, what of the Jews that dwelt about the holy place? Here was the garrison of the citadel hemming them in, seeking ever to do them injury, and to sustain the Gentile cause. (1 Maccabees 6, 18)
But it was against the holy place itself that he turned his arms, and long he beleaguered it; what catapults he brought to bear on it, what engines! Flew fiery darts, flew stone and javelin and arrow from mangonel and arbalest, and the slings took their turn. (1 Maccabees 6, 51)
Only a few defenders were left in the holy place now; the rest, overtaken by famine, had dispersed to their homes. (1 Maccabees 6, 54)
This day a new enemy overwhelm with our onslaught, and let all the world know what comes of threatening thy holy place; for his ill-doing, ill requite him! (1 Maccabees 7, 42)
