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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 4
The available numbered POB Greek working edition, retaining each record’s declared source edition and notes. Artwork interprets this book’s account. Appearance, clothing and staging are interpretive; material from 2 Maccabees is not imported.
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· Greek
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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909
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1 Maccabees 4:38
The Sanctuary Laid Waste
The Sanctuary Dedicated Again · 1 Maccabees 4
Story guide: Burned gates, ruined chambers, and dense weeds surround the old sooty altar in the stripped sanctuary court.
Open this scene in the reader →38And they saw our sanctuary laid waste, and the altar defiled, and the gates burned down, and in the courts plants growing as in a thicket or as on one of the mountains, and the chambers torn down.
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