OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 6:38

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The rest of the cavalry he set on this side and that side on the two flanks of the army, striking terror into the enemy, and protected by the phalanxes.

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Verse 38. Trumpets. It would seem as if the infantry had none. Yet this does not appear probable. The Greek reads in a different manner. Some copies have “to stir up and enclose them in the defiles,” which seems useless; or “to keep them together in the phalanxes,” (MS. Alex. Calmet.) as the Vulg. has read. Menochius.

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