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Gorgias stands with a torch between two empty awnings, looking down at abandoned bedding and a cold hearth.
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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 4

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· Greek

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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909

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    1 Maccabees 4:5

    An Empty Camp at Night

    The Sanctuary Dedicated Again · 1 Maccabees 4

    Story guide: Gorgias finds the camp empty, then searches the mountain paths because he believes Judas’s men are fleeing.

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    5And Gorgias came to the camp of Judas by night, and found no one; and he was looking for them in the mountains, because he said, “These men are fleeing from us.”

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