OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 3:25

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For they saw a horse with a frightening rider, adorned with beautiful trappings, and he rushed fiercely and struck at Heliodorus with his forefeet. It seemed like he who sat on the horse had complete armor of gold.

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Verse 25. Horse. Fiery horses took Elias from the earth, (4 Kennicott. 2:11) and the mountain where Eliseus was seemed full of such, (Ib. 6:17) which is not less wonderful than what we read here. See Saint Ambrose (Of. i. 29.) treating of this history. Worthington.

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