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In like manner Judas also gathered together for us all those books that had been scattered by reason of the war, and they are still with us.
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Verse 14. Judas. This seems to be the Essene, who with others wrote this epistle; (Calmet. 1:10. Worthington.) or rather ( Bible.) the Machabee, who was as solicitous to preserve the sacred books as Antiochus was to destroy them. 1 B. 1:59 and 2:48. It is said that another assembly met to admit such books into the canon as had been written since the days of Nehemias.
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