Fondare 651 Risultati per: Jewish Temple
Grudge the Jewish folk burial, give their carrion to bird and beast, make an end of them, children and all? Nay, such high privileges they should have as the townsfolk of Athens itself. (2 Maccabees 9, 15)
And for that sacred temple he had stripped bare, with choice gifts he would enrich it, furnishing it as never before, and defraying, from his own purse, all the cost of its sacrifices. (2 Maccabees 9, 16)
To his loyal Jewish subjects Antiochus, their king and general, sends greeting, health, and happiness! (2 Maccabees 9, 19)
Meanwhile, God aiding, Machabaeus and his followers had recovered both temple and city. (2 Maccabees 10, 1)
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)
It so fell out, that the temple was purified on the twenty-fifth day of Casleu, the very time of its profanation by the Gentiles. (2 Maccabees 10, 5)
Now that God had made the way clear for his temple’s cleansing, what wonder if they set up in his honour branches, and green boughs, and arbours of palm? (2 Maccabees 10, 7)
here was a temple that would yield a fine spoil, as temples did everywhere; a priesthood, too, that might be put up for sale year after year. (2 Maccabees 11, 3)
As for Machabaeus, he consented to what Lysias asked, having no thought but for the common good; and the written terms he proposed to Lysias in the Jewish people’s name received the royal assent. (2 Maccabees 11, 15)
And whereas we would have this nation live peaceably like the rest, we enact and decree that their temple should be restored to them, and that they should follow the custom of their forefathers. (2 Maccabees 11, 25)
That the Jewish folk may eat what food they will, use what laws they will, according to their ancient custom; and if aught has been done amiss through inadvertence, none of them, for that cause, shall be molested. (2 Maccabees 11, 31)
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)
