Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Maccabees 3:15

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, page 267, footnote 6 (Image)

Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius and Minor Writers, Methodius, Arnobius

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CCEL Footnote 2274 (In-Text, Margin)

... certain great festival it happened that he was offering the sacrifice of the mass, and wished to do this same thing. Thereupon, not only the people, but the clergy also, exclaimed with one voice, “Take thy seat upon thy chair, bishop.” But he, as if conscious of a mystery, feigned not to hear this; and giving the signal for silence,—for no one dared pertinaciously to withstand him,—he made them all quiet, and yet, nevertheless, sat down on the footstool of the chair; and the solemnities of the mass[2 Maccabees 3:15] having been celebrated as usual, each one of the faithful returned to his own home.