OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 1:12

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That proposal was good in their eyes.

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Verse 12. Men. Jason attempted to supplant Onias III. and introduced pagan customs, when he was dead. Menelaus treated him in like manner. Being cited to pay what he had promised, he left Lysimachus in his place, who was slain in the temple, which he was robbing. 2 Maccabees 4.—Us. Thus the Jews complained in the days of Jeremias, (44:18) and the Christian religion was blamed for all the miseries which fell upon the Roman empire. Calmet.—Saint Augustine proves in his City of God, that this accusation was false. Bible.

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