OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 1:38

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38

The inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them. She became a habitation of foreigners. She became foreign to those who were born in her, and her children forsook her.

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Verse 38. Sanctuary, to pillage all who came to the temple. Calmet.—An evil devil. Literally, an adversary, watching constantly to do harm, as the evil spirit is always watching and seeking whom he could devour. Challoner.

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