OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 14:27

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So they wrote on tablets of brass, and set them on pillars on mount Zion. This is the copy of the writing: “On the eighteenth day of Elul, in the one hundred seventy-second year, which is the third year of Simon the high priest,

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Verse 27. Elul, the last of the civil year, A. 3863.—At. Lit. “in Asaramel,” ( Bible.) “the court of Mello,” ( Calmet.) or “the prince of God,” (Serar.) as if it were another Hebrew title of Simon. Prot. “At Saramel.” Marg. “or Jerusalem, peradventure, … or the common hall,” and so forth Bible.

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circa B.Calmet. 141.

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