“But not long after, the king sent a certain old man from Antioch, who was to compel the Jews to depart from their ancestral ways and the laws of God, etc. These same events are reported in the preceding book, namely that Antiochus, through his messengers, defiled the temple by setting up in it the idol of desolation u…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 2 Maccabees
Original
2And to pollute also the temple in Jerusalem, and to call it the temple of Jupiter Olympius; and that in Garizim, of Jupiter the Defender of strangers, as they did desire that dwelt in the place.
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1Not long after this the king sent an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers, and not to live after the laws of God:
— 2 Maccabees 6:2 —
3The coming in of this mischief was sore and grievous to the people:
4For the temple was filled with riot and revelling by the Gentiles, who dallied with harlots, and had to do with women within the circuit of the holy places, and besides that brought in things that were not lawful.