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for our help comes from Heaven. Finally we have been freed from our enemies who have been humbled. (1 Maccabees 12, 15)
But now I am old, while you - thanks be to Heaven - are already mature men. Take my place and my brother's, and go out to fight for our country. May Heaven's help be with you!" (1 Maccabees 16, 3)
As we are about to celebrate the purification of the Temple on the twenty-fifth day of Chislev, it seems good to us to inform you, so that you, too, may celebrate the Feast of Tents and remember the fire that appeared when Nehemiah, who built the Temple and the altar, offered sacrifices. (2 Maccabees 1, 18)
For when our fathers were deported to Persia, the devout priests of the time took some of the fire from the altar and hid it secretly in the hollow of a dry well, with such caution that the place remained unknown to everyone. (2 Maccabees 1, 19)
Many years had passed, when in God's own time Nehemiah, who was commissioned by the king of Persia, sent the descendants of the priests who had hidden the fire to look for it. (2 Maccabees 1, 20)
But they reported to us that they did not find the fire but instead a thick liquid. So Nehemiah ordered them to draw it out and bring it to him. When the sacrifice had been prepared on the altar, Nehemiah ordered the priests to sprinkle the liquid on the wood and the victims placed on it. (2 Maccabees 1, 21)
They did so and after some time the sun which had previously been clouded over, shone. At once such a great fire blazed up that all were astonished. (2 Maccabees 1, 22)
This was done, and a flame flared up but it was outshone by the fire from the altar. (2 Maccabees 1, 32)
This matter became known, and it was reported to the king of the Persians that the liquid with which Nehemiah and his companions had burned the sacrifice was found in the place where the exiled priests had hidden the fire. (2 Maccabees 1, 33)
It is found in the archives that the prophet Jeremiah ordered the exiles to take the fire, as we have already said. (2 Maccabees 2, 1)
It is also said in these writings of the past that the prophet Jeremiah, fulfilling orders from Heaven, commanded that the ark of the Covenant with its tent be brought with him. And he went to the mountain which Moses had climbed before and from where he had seen the promised land. (2 Maccabees 2, 4)
And as fire had come down from heaven through the prayer of Moses to consume the offerings and the sacrificial victim, so through the prayer of Solomon, fire also came down from heaven and burned up the holocausts. (2 Maccabees 2, 10)
