“When he had founded for himself a Church with the entrance of faith from the people of the Gentiles, from there he might open to the Gentiles of the whole world the entrance of faith through the Gospel. Joppa is interpreted as “beauty,” and what is more beautiful than the holy Church, to which the Bridegroom says in t…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees 14
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5And as he was honourable in all his acts, so in this, that he took Joppa for an haven, and made an entrance to the isles of the sea,
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3Who went and smote the host of Demetrius, and took him, and brought him to Arsaces, by whom he was put in ward.
4As for the land of Judea, that was quiet all the days of Simon; for he sought the good of his nation in such wise, as that evermore his authority and honour pleased them well.
— 1 Maccabees 14:5 —
6And enlarged the bounds of his nation, and recovered the country,
7And gathered together a great number of captives, and had the dominion of Gazera, and Bethsura, and the tower, out of the which he took all uncleaness, neither was there any that resisted him.