OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 3:10

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The high priest explained to him that there were in the treasury deposits of widows and orphans,

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Verse 10. And provisions is not in Greek or Syr. Calmet.—Something was to be given for such feasts; (Deuteronomy 14:23. Lyr. Menochius.) or people deposited in the temple their treasures; as all nations have judged that they would be there most secure. Grot. Tirinus. Calmet.

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