Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Maccabees 9:8

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 13, page 359, footnote 14 (Image)

Gregory the Great II, Ephriam Syrus, Aphrahat

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CCEL Footnote 801 (In-Text, Margin)

... should not circumcise. Therefore, (the Prophet) said concerning him;— He shall think to change the times and the seasons and the laws, and they were given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time. Now the time and half a time is the week and a half, which is ten years and a half. Again he said:— The judgment was set and they took away his authority from him, to injure and destroy him until the end of the kingdom. For the judgment came upon Antiochus, a judgment from heaven;[2 Maccabees 9:5-12] and he became sick with a grievous and evil sickness, and on account of the smell of him as he rotted, no man could approach him, for worms were crawling and falling from him and eating his flesh because he oppressed the worm Jacob. And his ...