2 Machabees — Chapter 4
These annotations are from the original 1609 Douay Old Testament, the first complete English Catholic Bible translation, produced by English scholars in exile at the English College of Douai. The archaic spelling is preserved.
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Verse 1
It is the common practice of all traitors to calumniate and defame good governors.
Verse 6
The best remedy against such seducers is by authority of Superior power, not by the people, who are commonly more prone to favour faction then justice.
Verse 11
Where true Religion is abolished, the Priests were not now occupied about the offices of the altar, but the temple being contemned & the sacrifices neglected.
Verse 27
Menelaus brother of Simon of the tribe of Beniamin was not by the law capable of the Priesthood, which only pertained to the progenie of Aaron of the tribe of Levi.
Verse 37
True vertue mourned the common people to compassion, the King himself to teares, the Tyrians to honour the bodies of the innocent with costly burial.