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They rose up early in the morning, on the twenty-fifth day of the ninth month, which is the month Chislev, in the one hundred forty eighth year,
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Verse 52. Year. The temple was purified a little more than two years after it had been profaned. A. 145. Worthington.—The sacrifices had been interrupted just three years. The Second Book (10:3) specifies two years; whence some infer, that the temple was twice dedicated. But these two years most probably refer to the administration of Judas. Saint Thomas Aquinas or some other com. Usher, A. 3840. Tirinus. Calmet. Salien. Menochius.
circa B.Calmet. 165.
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