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Mattathias reacts with anger as the offering man approaches.
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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 2

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· Greek

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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909

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    1 Maccabees 2:24

    Zeal and Wrath

    A Covenant in the Wilderness · 1 Maccabees 2

    Story guide: The sequence moves from Mattathias’s anger to his rush toward the altar. The final overturned bowl and empty cloth are memorial imagery for the killing quoted below.

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    24And Mattathias saw it and was zealous, and his inward parts trembled, and he brought up wrath according to the judgment, and running up he slaughtered him on the altar.

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