2 Machabees 1:21
Then he bade them draw it up, and bring it to him: and the priest Nehemias commanded the sacrifices that were laid on, to be sprinkled with the same water, both the wood, and the things that were laid upon it.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et jussit eos haurire, et afferre sibi : et sacrificia quæ imposita erant, jussit sacerdos Nehemias aspergi ipsa aqua : et ligna, et quæ erant superposita.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὡς διεσάφισαν ἡμῖν μὴ εὑρηκέναι πῦρ ἀλλὰ ὕδωρ παχύ, ἐκέλευσεν αὐτοὺς ἀποβάψαντας φέρειν· ὡς δὲ ἀνηνέχθη τὰ τῶν θυσιῶν, ἐκέλευσεν τοὺς ἱερεῖς Νεεμίας ἐπιρᾶναι τῷ ὕδατι τά τε ξύλα καὶ τὰ ἐπικείμενα.
Haydock's commentary
The priest. Greek, "Nehemias ordered the priests to sprinkle with the water both," &c. (Haydock)
Modern Jews say the sacred fire was not in the second temple. But Gorionides and 4 Machabees admit this fact. (Calmet)
Elias obtained fire upon his sacrifice nearly in the same manner. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.