Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Maccabees 4:56

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CCEL Footnote 1691 (In-Text, Margin)

And it came to pass that the festival of the dedication[1 Maccabees 4:52-59] was at hand; wherefore also Joachim went up to Jerusalem with some men of his own tribe. Now at that time Issachar was high priest there. And when he saw Joachim with his offering among his other fellow-citizens, he despised him, and spurned his gifts, asking why he, who had no offspring, presumed to stand among those who had; saying that his gifts could not by any means be acceptable to God, since He had deemed him unworthy of off-spring: for the Scripture said, ...