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and the temple was purged of its defilement. They made a fresh altar, struck fire from flint, and offered sacrifice again after two years’ intermission; rose incense, burned lamp, loaves were set out on the sacred table once more. (2 Maccabees 10, 3)
they lay prostrate at the altar’s foot, entreating the Lord he would espouse their quarrel, and their foes should be his; the law had promised it. (2 Maccabees 10, 26)
Then, this supplication made, they took up arms and marched out, leaving the city far away in their rear, nor ever halted till they were close to the enemy’s lines. (2 Maccabees 10, 27)
The letter sent to the Jews by Lysias was after this manner: Lysias, to the people of the Jews, all health! (2 Maccabees 11, 16)
And of the king’s own letter, the tenour was this: King Antiochus, to his good cousin Lysias, all health! (2 Maccabees 11, 22)
To the Jews themselves the king wrote as follows: King Antiochus, to the elders and people of the Jews, all health! (2 Maccabees 11, 27)
The Romans, too, wrote to them after the manner following; Quintus Memmius and Titus Manlius, envoys of Rome, to the Jewish people, all health! (2 Maccabees 11, 34)
A fitting reward, this, for one that had done so many outrages upon God’s altar; fire of it and ashes of it are sacred, and it was by ashes Menelaus went to his death. (2 Maccabees 13, 8)
Now turn we to one Alcimus, that had been high priest formerly, but had wilfully incurred defilement in the days when folk began consorting with the Gentiles.✻ Little hope was left him, he should live to present himself at the altar again; (2 Maccabees 14, 3)
first, the loyalty I have to the king’s own interest, but not less, the love of my own fellow-countrymen; by the false aims of a faction the whole of our race is brought into utter misery. (2 Maccabees 14, 8)
No peace the commonwealth may have, while Judas lives. (2 Maccabees 14, 10)
and swore that if Judas were not handed over to him in chains he would raze yonder sanctuary to the ground, demolish the altar, and consecrate its precincts anew to Bacchus. (2 Maccabees 14, 33)
