“when he taught his Church to preserve the religion of the New Testament in an orderly and fittingly instituted manner.”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees 14
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15He beautified the sanctuary, and multiplied vessels of the temple.
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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.
— 1 Maccabees 14:15 —
16Now when it was heard at Rome, and as far as Sparta, that Jonathan was dead, they were very sorry.
17But as soon as they heard that his brother Simon was made high priest in his stead, and ruled the country, and the cities therein: