The Second Book of Maccabees
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- Kapitel 12 -
The Jews are still molested by their neighbours. Judas gains divers victories over them. He orders sacrifice and prayers for the dead.
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Fußnoten
(a)12:9 The distance of 240 stadia is about 27.5 miles or about 44 kilometers.(Conte)
(b)12:11 Notice, from the way that this passage is worded, that Judas and his army did not fare so well in this battle. They obtained the upper hand after a difficult fight, but they did not completely defeat the Arabs. The battle ceased (cessisset) and the situation at that cessation favored (prospere) Judas, but the Arabs did not turn and flee. It was a marginal victory, not a rout.(Conte)
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Rams: That is, engines for battering walls, etc., which were used in sieges in those times.(Challoner)
(d)12:20 A cohort, at least among the Romans, was supposed to be 360 men, so the number of men cited as six thousand is like an approximation, or else the dividing into cohorts is an approximation.(Conte)
(e)12:24 This last part sound like a veiled threat by Timothy against those Jews whom his men held under their power.(Conte)
(f)12:29
Scythopolis: Formerly called Bethsan.(Challoner)
(g)12:31 Or, ‘as the solemn days of the Feast of Weeks were approaching.’(Conte)
(h)12:40
Of the donaries, etc: That is, of the votive offerings, which had been hung up in the temples of the idols, which they had taken away when they burnt the port of Jamnia, ver. 9., contrary to the prohibition of the law, Deut. 7:25.(Challoner)
(i)12:45
With godliness: Judas hoped that these men who died fighting for the cause of God and religion, might find mercy: either because they might be excused from mortal sin by ignorance; or might have repented of their sin, at least at their death.(Challoner)
(j)12:46
It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead: Here is an evident and undeniable proof of the practice of praying for the dead under the old law, which was then strictly observed by the Jews, and consequently could not be introduced at that time by Judas, their chief and high priest, if it had not been always their custom.(Challoner)
Die Juden werden immer noch von ihren Nachbarn belästigt. Judas erringt verschiedene Siege über sie. Er befiehlt, für die Toten zu opfern und zu beten
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