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As we are then about to celebrate the purification, we have written unto you: and you shall do well, if you keep the same days.
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And we hope that God who hath delivered his people, and hath rendered to all the inheritance, and the kingdom, and the priesthood, and the sanctuary,
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As he promised in the law, will shortly have mercy upon us, and will gather us together from every land under heaven into the holy place.
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For he hath delivered us out of great perils, and hath cleansed the place.
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Now as concerning Judas Machabeus. and his brethren, and the purification of the great temple, and the dedication o the altar: