[606] For charoots, "moat" (Ewald), the A.V. has "wall," and in the marg. "breach" or "ditch." The word occurs for "ditches" in the Talmud. The text of the verse is uncertain.
[607] Perhaps because neither Jason nor Menelaus (being apostate) were regarded as genuine successors of Onias III.
[608] Numb. xiv. 34; Lev. xxvi. 34; Ezek. iv. 6.
[609] Comp. Jer. xxxii. 11, 44.
[610] See Isa. xlvi. 3, li. 5, liii. 11; Jer. xxiii. 6, etc.
[611] For the anointing of the altar see Exod. xxix. 36, xl. 10; Lev. viii. 11; Numb. vii. 1. It would make no difference in the usus loquendi if neither Zerubbabel's nor Judas's altar was actually anointed.
[612] It is only used thirteen times of the Debhîr, or Holiest Place.
[613] 1 Macc. iv. 54.
[614] Theodot., ἕως χριστοῦ ἡγουμένου.
[615] Saadia the Gaon, Rashi, Von Lengerke, Hitzig, Schürer, Cornill.