2 Machabees 1:34
And the king considering, and diligently examining the matter, made a temple for it, that he might prove what had happened.
Challoner: A templeThat is, an enclosure, or a wall round about the place where the fire was hid, to separate it from profane uses, to the end that it might be respected as a holy place.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Considerans autem rex, et rem diligenter examinans, fecit ei templum, ut probaret quod factum erat :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- περιφράξας δὲ ὁ βασιλεὺς ἱερὸν ἐποίησεν, δοκιμάσας τὸ πρᾶγμα·
Haydock's commentary
A temple. That is, an enclosure or a wall round about the place where the fire was hid, to separate it from profane uses, to the end that it might be respected as a holy place. (Challoner)
Such open enclosures are often styled temples. (Calmet)
Greek, "But the king enclosing it, made it sacred, (ieron) having examined the fact." (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.