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Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
These books are so called, because they contain the history of thepeople of God under the command of Judas Machabeus and his brethren: andhe, as some will have it, was surnamed Machabeus, from carrying in hisensigns, or standards, those words of Exodus 15.11, Who is like to theeamong the strong, O Lord: in which the initial letters, in the Hebrew,are M. C. B. E. I. It is not known who is the author of these books. Butas to their authority, though they are not received by the Jews, saithSt. Augustine, (lib. 18, De Civ. Dei, c. 36,) they are received by thechurch: who, in settling her canon of the scriptures, chose rather to bedirected by the tradition she had received from the apostles of Christ,than by that of the scribes and Pharisees. And as the church hasdeclared these two Books canonical, even in two general councils, viz.,Florence and Trent, there can be no doubt of their authenticity.
1 Machabees Chapter 1
The reign of Alexander and his successors: Antiochus rifles and profanesthe temple of God: and persecutes unto death all that will not forsakethe law of God, and the religion of their fathers.
1:1. Now it came to pass, after that Alexander the son of Philip theMacedonian, who first reigned in Greece, coming out of the land ofCethim, had overthrown Darius, king of the Persians and Medes:
1:2. He fought many battles, and took the strong holds of all, and slewthe kings of the earth:
1:3. And he went through even to the ends of the earth: and took thespoils of many nations: and the earth was quiet before him.
1:4. And he gathered a power, and a very strong army: and his heart wasexalted and lifted up:
1:5. And he subdued countries of nations, and princes; and they becametributaries to him.
1:6. And after these things, he fell down upon his bed, and knew that heshould die.
1:7. And he called his servants, the nobles that were brought up withhim from his youth: and he divided his kingdom among them, while he wasyet alive.
Divided his kingdom, etc… This is otherwise related by Q. Curtius;though he acknowledges that divers were of that opinion, and that it hadbeen delivered by some authors, lib. 10. But here we find from thesacred text, that he was in error.
1:8. And Alexander reigned twelve years, and he died.
1:9. And his servants made themselves kings, every one in his place:
1:10. And they all put crowns upon themselves after his death, and theirsons after them, many years; and evils were multiplied in the earth.
1:11. And