Machabees
Americannoun
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They took not indeed the course of the Machabees, which they deemed in their case to be merely impossible.
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by Gerard, John
It was the belief among the Jews of old, and of this we have clear proof in the Second Book of Machabees, xii.,
From Purgatory by Sadlier, Mrs. James
West. the deliuerance of the Israelites 229, and in the fourth yeare of the Seleuciens, after which account the bookes of Machabees doo reckon, which began in the 14, after the death of Alexander.
From Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8) by Holinshed, Raphael
An unexpected light shall arise by the means of the Machabees, when things shalll seem to be at the worst.
From The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 43: Zacharias The Challoner Revision by
The word is not found in Hebrew brew copies of the Scriptures, but is used in the Machabees, the original of which is in Greek, and in the New Testament.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances
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