“Holy preachers build holy things within the house inside and the temple, when they adorn the subject people both inwardly with the knowledge of sound faith, and outwardly with upright conduct; they consecrate the courts when, by initiating those newly coming to the faith with divine rituals, they dedicate them. They m…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees
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48And made up the sanctuary, and the things that were within the temple, and hallowed the courts.
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46And laid up the stones in the mountain of the temple in a convenient place, until there should come a prophet to shew what should be done with them.
47Then they took whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar according to the former;
— 1 Maccabees 4:48 —
49They made also new holy vessels, and into the temple they brought the candlestick, and the altar of burnt offerings, and of incense, and the table.
50And upon the altar they burned incense, and the lamps that were upon the candlestick they lighted, that they might give light in the temple.