Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Maccabees 6:20

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 13, page 359, footnote 7 (Image)

Gregory the Great II, Ephriam Syrus, Aphrahat

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CCEL Footnote 794 (In-Text, Margin)

... Gentiles have come into thine inheritance, and have defiled Thy holy temple.  They have made Jerusalem desolate.  They have given the dead bodies of Thy servants as food to the birds of heaven, and the flesh of Thy righteous ones to the beasts of the earth.  They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and there is none to bury them. For this was accomplished at that time, when the venerable and aged Eleazar was slain, and the sons of the blessed Samuna, seven in number,[2 Maccabees 6:18-31] and when Judas (Maccabeus) and his brethren were struggling on behalf of their people, when they were dwelling in hiding-places. At that time the horn made war with the saints, and their power prevailed. And the wicked Antiochus spake ...