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Maccabees
Part of Speech: noun plural
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1. The name given later times to the Asmonaeans, a family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV., 168- 161 B. C., which led to a period of freedom for Israel.
Part of Speech: noun
1. The name of two ancient historical books, which give accounts of Jewish affairs in or about the time of the Maccabean princes, and which are received as canonical books in the Roman Catholic Church, but are included in the Apocrypha by Protestants. Also applied to three books, two of which are found in some MSS. of the Septuagint.
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- Men of sound judgment will always find at least as much interest attached to the history of the first Maccabees as to that of Epaminondas; and the self- sacrifice of the Vendean Cathelineau, with his " beads" and his " sacred heart," will always appear to an impartial judge of human character more truly admirable than that of any general or marshal of the first Napoleon. - "Irish Race in the Past and the Present", Aug. J. Thebaud.
- All the evidence found in the two books of Maccabees indicates that he was inspired by the noblest patriotism. - "The Makers and Teachers of Judaism", Charles Foster Kent.
- A prelude to the fulfilment of the prophecy before us took place at the time of the Maccabees, comp. - "Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2", Ernst Hengstenberg.