OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 2:16

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Seeing then that we are about to celebrate the purification, we write to you. You will therefore do well if you celebrate the days.

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Verse 16. The purification. This is the feast of the purifying or cleansing of the temple, ( Challoner.) the 25th of Casleu. Calmet. 1:9. 18.

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