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Having said this, he went away. Then the priests stretched out their hands toward heaven and called upon the constant Defender of our nation, in these words:
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"O Lord of all, though you have need of nothing, you were pleased that there should be a temple for your habitation among us;
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so now, O holy One, Lord of all holiness, keep undefiled forever this house that has been so recently purified."
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A certain Razis, one of the elders of Jerusalem, was denounced to Nicanor as a man who loved his compatriots and was very well thought of and for his goodwill was called father of the Jews.
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In former times, when there was no mingling with the Gentiles, he had been accused of Judaism, and he had most zealously risked body and life for Judaism.
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