OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 4:22

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Being magnificently received by Jason and the city, he was brought in with torches and shouting. Then he led his army down into Phoenicia.

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Verse 22. Lights, usual in testimony of joy. Calmet.—The roofs at Athens were all illuminated when Anthony entered; (Plut.) and Cæsar ascended the capitol, while forty elephants on each side bore torches. Sueton. xxxvii.

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