2 Machabees 2:16
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.
Challoner: The purificationThat is, the feast of the purifying or cleansing of the temple.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Acturi itaque purificationem scripsimus vobis : bene ergo facietis, si egeritis hos dies.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Μέλλοντες οὖν ἄγειν τὸν καθαρισμὸν ἐγράψαμεν ὑμῖν· καλῶς οὖν ποιήσετε ἄγειν τὰς ἡμέρας.
Haydock's commentary
The purification. This is the feast of the purifying or cleansing of the temple, (Challoner) the 25th of Casleu, chap. i. 9, 18.
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.