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We, then, on this twenty-fifth day of Casleu, mean to solemnize the purification of the temple, and hold ourselves bound to notify you of it, so that you too may keep holiday, with making of bowers. …… And of the fire imparted to us, when Nehemias offered sacrifice at the re-building of temple and altar.✻ (2 Maccabees 1, 18)
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)
And what did Nehemias? He would have some of the water drawn and fetched to him; with this water, once the sacrifice was laid on the altar, both the wood and the offerings themselves must be sprinkled. (2 Maccabees 1, 21)
To prayer fell the priests all around, while sacrifice was done, Jonathan to lead them,✻ and the rest answering; (2 Maccabees 1, 23)
none else so kindly, none else so just, as thou, the almighty, the eternal! Israel from all peril thou deliverest, thou didst make choice of our fathers, and set them apart for thyself. (2 Maccabees 1, 25)
For the whole nation of Israel receive our sacrifice; all are thine; thy own domain keep inviolate. (2 Maccabees 1, 26)
Then, till the sacrifice was consumed, the priests went on with their singing of hymns; (2 Maccabees 1, 30)
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)
Solomon, the master of wisdom, that in his wisdom offered sacrifice to hallow the temple he had made. (2 Maccabees 2, 9)
Prayed Moses, prayed Solomon, and fire came down from heaven to consume the burnt-sacrifice. … (2 Maccabees 2, 10)
did not Seleucus, king of Asia, defray all the cost of maintaining its sacrifices? (2 Maccabees 3, 3)
And at last, when overcome Onias he might not, what did he? To Apollonius he betook himself, the son of Tharseas, that was then in charge of Coelesyria and Phoenice, (2 Maccabees 3, 5)
