2 Machabees 1:32
Which being done, there was kindled a flame from them: but it was consumed by the light that shined from the altar.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quod ut factum est, ex eis flamma accensa est : sed ex lumine quod refulsit ab altari, consumpta est.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὡς δὲ τοῦτο ἐγενήθη, φλὸξ ἀνήφθη· τοῦ δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου ἀντιλάμψαντος φωτὸς ἐδαπανήθη.
Haydock's commentary
Altar. This second flame came immediately from heaven, and overpowered that proceeding from the mud. (Calmet)
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.