“Pastophoria in Greek are called chambers, or rooms, in which the Levites kept watch in the courts of the house of the Lord, whose mention is made in the last vision of the prophet Ezekiel. Therefore, pastophoria are destroyed when the secrets of the mind are torn apart by illicit desires; but above all, it is necessar…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees
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39They rent their clothes, and made great lamentation, and cast ashes upon their heads,
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37Upon this all the host assembled themselves together, and went up into mount Sion.
38And when they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burned up, and shrubs growing in the courts as in a forest, or in one of the mountains, yea, and the priests’ chambers pulled down;
— 1 Maccabees 4:39 —
40And fell down flat to the ground upon their faces, and blew an alarm with the trumpets, and cried toward heaven.
41Then Judas appointed certain men to fight against those that were in the fortress, until he had cleansed the sanctuary.