“This is in accordance with what is said in Micah: Each one shall rest under his own vine and under his own fig tree, and there will be no one to terrify (1 Kings 4:25). This is the vine spoken of in the Gospel: I am the vine and you are the branches, and my Father is the vinedresser. Everyone who does not bear good fr…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees 14
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12For every man sat under his vine and his fig tree, and there was none to fray them:
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10He provided victuals for the cities, and set in them all manner of munition, so that his honourable name was renowned unto the end of the world.
11He made peace in the land, and Israel rejoiced with great joy:
— 1 Maccabees 14:12 —
13Neither was there any left in the land to fight against them: yea, the kings themselves were overthrown in those days.
14Moreover he strengthened all those of his people that were brought low: the law he searched out; and every contemner of the law and wicked person he took away.