The First Book of Maccabees
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The reign of Alexander and his successors: Antiochus rifles and profanes the temple of God: and persecutes unto death all that will not forsake the law of God, and the religion of their fathers.
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Fußnoten
(a)1:1 Notice that the book begins as if it were a continuation of another book: “And it happened afterwards....” The author of this book must have written another book (apparently one not inspired as Scripture), on the topic of Jewish history. That book is not part of Scripture and this one is.(Conte)
(b)1:7
Divided his kingdom, etc: This is otherwise related by Q. Curtius; though he acknowledges that divers were of that opinion, and that it had been delivered by some authors, lib. 10. But here we find from the sacred text, that he was in error.(Challoner)
(c)1:11
Antiochus the Illustrius: Epiphanes, the younger son of Antiochus the Great, who usurped the kingdom, to the prejudice of his nephew Demetrius, son of his elder brother Seleucus Philopater.(Challoner)
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Of the kingdom of the Greeks: Counting, not from the beginning of the reign of Alexander, but from the first year of Seleucus Nicator.(Challoner)
(e)1:16 Literally, they made themselves foreskins, in other words, they tried to undo their circumcision. This verse has a spiritual meaning, referring to those Christians who abandon the faith and act as if they were never baptized.(Conte)
(f)1:23 Literally, ‘mensam propositionis’ is ‘the table of showing,’ i.e. the table for the bread of the Presence used in ancient times by the Jews. This bread of the Presence was a foreshadowing of the Eucharist, in which Christ is fully Present. Antiochus was a foreshadowing of the Antichrist, who will take away the Eucharist from most places on earth, and replace it with the abomination of desolation.(Conte)
(g)1:28 A bridegroom is either one who is about to marry or one who has recently married. The expression, ‘those who sat in the marriage bed’ refers to newlyweds.(Conte)
(h)1:29 The land shook because of an earthquake; this verse predicts an earthquake about the time that the Antichrist invades and conquers the holy land of Israel.(Conte)
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The chief collector, etc: Apollonius.(Challoner)
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The city of David: That is, the castle of Sion.(Challoner)
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An evil devil: That is, an adversary watching constantly to do harm, as the evil spirit is always watching and seeking whom he may devour.(Challoner)
(l)1:50 This text refers, eschatologically, to the time during the Antichrist’s reign, when he tries to destroy the Church from within by promoting a perverse imitation of the sacrifice of the Mass and of the Eucharist. This perverse imitation of the Eucharist is called the abomination of desolation.(Conte)
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The abominable idol, etc: Viz., the statue of Jupiter Olympius.(Challoner)
(n)1:65 Some Christians will choose to die, rather than to consume the abomination of desolation, that false and perverse imitation of the Eucharist.(Conte)
Die Herrschaft von Alexander und seinen Nachfolgern: Antiochus wütet und entweiht den Tempel Gottes und verfolgt alle, die das Gesetz Gottes und die Religion ihrer Väter nicht aufgeben wollen, bis zum Tod
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