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Macc.

American  

abbreviation

  1. Maccabees.


Macc. British  

abbreviation

  1. Maccabees (books of the Apocrypha)

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An Aretas is mentioned in 1 Macc. xv.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

By the insurgents under the leadership of Judas Maccabeus; 2 Macc. chap. viii.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves

This may have been Amos’s Gilgal and was almost certainly that of 1 Macc. ix.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various

The form with φ was doubtless read in the Apostolic Constitutions, and twice in Cyril of Alexandria, and that word is supported as well by 2 Macc. vii.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

It is suggested that the name Aristobulus was taken from 2 Macc. i.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

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