2 Maccabees 13:8 (WEB)
for inasmuch as he had perpetrated many sins against the altar, whose fire and whose ashes were holy, he received his death in ashes.
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“It is a golden altar, and a spiritual place of sacrifice;“For a contrite spirit is a sacrifice to God.”” — editor's note: βμο, θυσιαστριον. These two words are commonly used, the former in a bad, the other in a good sense, of Heathen, and Christian, or Jewish, altars respectively.…
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