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Long ago, when our fathers were being carried off into the Persian country, such priests of the true God as held office in those days took away the fire from the altar, and hid it down in the valley, in a pit both deep and dry, so well guarding their secret that none might know where it was to be found. (2 Maccabees 1, 19)
Years passed, and God’s will was that Nehemias should come back, holding the Persian king’s warrant. Nehemias it was that had search made for the fire, and by the grandsons of those very priests that hid it; but they made report, fire they could find none, only a puddle of water.✻ (2 Maccabees 1, 20)
Sprinkled they were, and when the sun shone out, that till now was hidden by a cloud, all at once a great fire blazed up, astonishing the beholders. (2 Maccabees 1, 22)
The news travelled, till the Persian king himself was told how water appeared where exiled priests had hidden the fire, how, with this water, Nehemias and his company had bathed the sacrifice. (2 Maccabees 1, 33)
You shall also find it set down in the dispositions made by the prophet Jeremias, that he bade the exiles rescue the sacred fire, in the manner aforesaid.✻ (2 Maccabees 2, 1)
Prayed Moses, prayed Solomon, and fire came down from heaven to consume the burnt-sacrifice. … (2 Maccabees 2, 10)
… Uneaten, Moses said, the victim for fault, and so the fire must consume it. … (2 Maccabees 2, 11)
Everywhere he testified how great a God was this, what strange things his own eyes had witnessed; (2 Maccabees 3, 36)
And all about the city of Jerusalem, by the space of forty days together, there were strange sights appearing. High up in air, horsemen were seen riding this way and that, in vesture of gold, and spears they carried as if they went to battle; (2 Maccabees 5, 2)
cast away without dole or tomb, that left so many tombless; in a strange land unburied, that might have rested in his fathers’ grave. (2 Maccabees 5, 10)
The king, in a rage, would have fire-pan heated, and caldron of bronze; heated they were, (2 Maccabees 7, 3)
then, so maimed, he was for the fire; they should roast him alive in a caldron. Long time he suffered, and there stood the rest with their mother, each heartening other to die bravely; (2 Maccabees 7, 5)
