And they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burnt, and shrubs growing up in the courts as in a forest, or on the mountains, and the chambers joining to the temple thrown down.

“Burnt by Callisthenes, whom the Jews burnt in a house, 2 Machabees viii. (Calmet) — Chambers; ( pastophoria. Septuagint) places for beds, veils, &c. (Haydock) — St. Jerome commonly prefers “the treasury,” with Aquila, or “beds,” as Symmachus translates. Chambers for the officers of the temple were common both among pagans and Christians. (Rufin, Hist. ii. 23.; Com. Apost.[Apostolic Constitutions?] ii. 57; Clement [of Alexandria,] pæd. iii. 2.) (Calmet) — As it was the chief design of Judas to defend religion, so he presently purifies the temple. (Worthington)”