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2 Maccabees 12:8

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By Jamnia, which is interpreted "sea," may be understood the gathering place of schismatics, who are always in a storm. Schism, therefore, as some would have it, is called a cutting off of morals: for it believes with the same worship and the same rite, and in all other respects, it delights only in the disagreement o…
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 2 Maccabees
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8But when he heard that the Jamnites were minded to do in like manner unto the Jews that dwelt among them,

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6And calling upon God the righteous Judge, he came against those murderers of his brethren, and burnt the haven by night, and set the boats on fire, and those that fled thither he slew.

7And when the town was shut up, he went backward, as if he would return to root out all them of the city of Joppa.

2 Maccabees 12:8

9He came upon the Jamnites also by night, and set fire on the haven and the navy, so that the light of the fire was seen at Jerusalem two hundred and forty furlongs off.

10Now when they were gone from thence nine furlongs in their journey toward Timotheus, no fewer than five thousand men on foot and five hundred horsemen of the Arabians set upon him.

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