2 Maccabees 6:5

2 Maccabees 6:5 Context

³The comming in of this mischiefe was sore and grieuous to the people: ⁴For the Temple was filled with riot and reuelling, by the Gentiles, who dallied with harlots, and had to doe with women within the circuit of the holy places, and besides that, brought in things that were not lawfull. ⁵The Altar also was filled with profane things, which the Law forbiddeth. ⁶Neither was it lawfull for a man to keepe Sabbath dayes, or ancient Feasts, or to professe himselfe at all to be a Iewe. ⁷And in the day of the kings birth, euery moneth they were brought by bitter constraint to eate of the sacrifices; and when the Feast of Bacchus was kept, the Iewes were compelled to goe in procession to Bacchus, carying Iuie.

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