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1 Maccabees 8:1-3
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 8:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 8
The Prestige of Rome.[a] 1 Judas heard of the reputation of the Romans—how they were mighty men who favored all who joined themselves to them and made an alliance with all who came to them and were strong and powerful. 2 He had also been told of the battles they had fought and of the brave deeds that they had performed against the people of Gaul[b] as they conquered them and forced them to pay tribute, 3 and what they had done in the province of Spain, seizing the silver and gold mines there
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- 1 Maccabees 8:1 This Book must certainly have been redacted a long time before Jerusalem was captured by Pompey in 63 B.C. for then, Rome became an enemy. The eulogy of Rome in this chapter is given as one of the reasons why 1 Maccabees was not preserved by the Palestinian Jews of the century that followed.
- 1 Maccabees 8:2 Gaul: the text has Galatia, but it must be read as Cisalpine Gaul, which was defeated in 222 B.C. (the first great expansion of Rome outside the peninsular part of Italy), because, listed in chronological order are the subsequent conquests, beginning with the Iberian one that followed immediately upon the Gallican. However, the Romans also defeated the Galatians in 189 B.C.
