3 Maccabees
Old Testament · 7 chapters · 228 verses
Every chapter of 3 Maccabees is given below in Sir Lancelot Brenton's classic English translation of the Septuagint (LXX) — 228 verses in 7 chapters — each with the Greek text of the Septuagint in parallel and the translator's notes to the printed edition.
Patristic commentary has not yet been attached to 3 Maccabees. The full corpus of the Fathers remains searchable in the Fathers Library.
Chapters
Chapter by Chapter
- 3 Maccabees 1 Now Philopater, on learning from those who came back that Antiochus had made himself master of the places which belonged to himself, sent orders to…
- 3 Maccabees 2 Now was it that the high priest Simon bowed his knees over against the holy place, and spread out his hands in reverent form, and uttered the…
- 3 Maccabees 3 On discovering this, so incensed was the wicked king, that he no longer confined his rage to the Jews in Alexandria. Laying his hand more heavily…
- 3 Maccabees 4 Wherever this decree was received, the people kept up a revelry of joy and shouting; as if their long-pent-up, hardened hatred, were now to show…
- 3 Maccabees 5 Then he called Hermon, who had charge of the elephants. Full of rage, altogether fixed in his furious design,
- 3 Maccabees 6 And Eleazar, an illustrious priest of the country, who had attained to length of days, and whose life had been adorned with virtue, caused the…
- 3 Maccabees 7 King Ptolemy Philopator to the commanders throughout Egypt, and to all who are set over affairs, joy and strength.