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3 Maccabees 1:14-16
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14 And someone answered thoughtlessly that it was wrong to place any significance in that.[a] 15 “But since this has happened,” the king[b] said, “why should not I at least enter, whether they wish it or not?”

Jewish Resistance to Ptolemy

16 Then the priests in all their vestments prostrated themselves and entreated the supreme God to aid in the present situation and to avert the violence of this evil design, and they filled the temple with cries and tears;(A)

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  1. 1.14 Gk take that as a portent
  2. 1.15 Gk he
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