OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 1:57

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57

Anyone who was found with any book of the covenant, and if any consented to the law, the king’s sentence delivered him to death.

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Verse 57. Fifteenth. In all other places the 25th, whence this may be incorrect, ( Calmet.) or the altar was now set up, ( Bible.) though sacrifices were not yet offered. Calmet.—Idol. The statue of Jupiter Olympius, ( Challoner.) as Daniel (9) had foretold, as a figure of what antichrist would do, (Matthew 24. Worthington.) as well as the Romans, when they took Jerusalem.

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