2 Maccabees 6:2 (WEB)
and also to pollute the sanctuary in Jerusalem and to call it by the name of Olympian Zeus, and to call the sanctuary in Gerizim by the name of Zeus the Protector of foreigners, even as the people who lived in that place did.
Fathers and councils · 2
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X VIII.4Conference VIII
“…of that idol of Jupiter which, as we read, was placed in the temple in Jerusalem, and which is again to stand in the Church through the coming of Antichrist, and all those things which follow in the gospel, which we take as having been fulfilled before the captivity of Jerusalem and still to be fulfilled at the end…” — editor's note: See Dan. ix. 27; 2 Macc. vi. 2; S. Matt. xxiv. 15 sq.
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Aphrahat
“And he defiled the sanctuary.” — editor's note: 2 Macc. vi. 2–4.
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.4.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.4.
Cited together in Conferences I–X VIII.4.