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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)
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)
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 Nehemias, and this was the manner of his praying: Lord God, that all things madest, the terrible, the strong, the just, the merciful, King gracious as none else; (2 Maccabees 1, 24)
and when all was finished, Nehemias would have them drench great stones with the water that was left. (2 Maccabees 1, 31)
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)
As for the place, Nehemias himself called it Nephthar, which means Purification; but the vulgar call it Nephi. (2 Maccabees 1, 36)
With all this, dispositions Nehemias made, records Nehemias kept, are in full agreement. He it was founded a library, and there collected histories of king and prophet, and of David himself; dispatches, too, the kings had sent, and inventories of gifts made. (2 Maccabees 2, 13)
And hereupon the King of all kings brought this guilty wretch into ill favour with his master Antiochus, who (upon Lysias’ averring, here was the true source of all their misadventures) would have him apprehended and put to death according to the custom of the place where they were quartered. (2 Maccabees 13, 4)
There was one Rhodocus in the Jewish army that betrayed secrets to the enemy, but, upon enquiry made, he was apprehended and put under arrest; (2 Maccabees 13, 21)
and he, meanwhile, has made the world, in all its seasonable beauty, and given us the contemplation✻ of it, yet of his own dealings with us, first and last, never should man gain comprehension. (Ecclesiastes 3, 11)
so well the Lord loved him, from a corrupt world he would grant him swift release.The world looks on, uncomprehending; a hard lesson it is to learn, (Wisdom of Solomon 4, 14)
