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1 Maccabees 4:41 Douay-Rheims

Then Judas appointed men to fight against them that were in the castle, till they had cleansed the holy places.

1 witness

Post-Reformation

c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
George Leo Haydock Catholic
1774–1849
“Fight, or to be ready, if the garrison should offer to molest them (Calmet) from the higher part of Sion, while they were performing what religion required of them. (Haydock)”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

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