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They saw the sanctuary laid desolate, the altar profaned, the gates burned up, shrubs growing in the courts as in a forest or as on one of the mountains, and the priests’ chambers pulled down;
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Verse 38. Burnt by Callisthenes, whom the Jews burnt in a house. 2 B. 8. Calmet.—Chambers; (pastophoria. Sept.) places for beds, veils, and so forth Bible.—S. Jerom commonly prefers “the treasury,” with Aquila, or “beds,” as Sym. translates. Chambers for the officers of the temple were common both among pagans and Christians. Rufin, Hist. ii. 23. Com. Apost. ii. 57. Clem. pæd. iii. 2. Calmet.—As it was the chief design of Judas to defend religion, so he presently purifies the temple. Worthington.
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