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But one Alcimus, who had formerly been high priest, and had willfully polluted himself in the times when there was no mingling with the Gentiles, considering that there was no deliverance for him in any way, nor any more access to the holy altar,
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Verse 3. Priest, after Menelaus, (1 B. 7:5) but never recognized, as Judas was then pontiff. He had, moreover, voluntarily defiled himself during the times of persecution; or, according to most Greek copies, ( Calmet.) when there was “no mixture” of Gentiles in the land to instigate him. Bible.—Though he was of Aaron’s stock, this apostacy rendered him ineligible; Mathathias was chosen, being also descended from Aaron, and more sincere in religion. Worthington.
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