| I Maccabees 4:38
| And they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burnt, and shrubs growing up in the courts as in a forest, or on the mountains, and the chambers joining to the temple thrown down.*
| Year of the World 3840. Burnt by Callisthenes, whom the Jews burnt in a house, 2 Machabees viii. (Calmet) --- Chambers; (pastophoria. Septuagint) places for beds, veils, etc. (Haydock) --- St. Jerome commonly prefers "the treasury," with Aquila, or "beds," as Symmachus translates. Chambers for the officers of the temple were common both among pagans and Christians. (Rufin, Hist. 2:23.; Com. Apost.[Apostolic Constitutions?] 2:57; Clement [of Alexandria,] paed. 3:2.) (Calmet) --- As it was the chief design of Judas to defend religion, so he presently purifies the temple. (Worthington)
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